Sharingwali Diwali !

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“If you don’t put out your best dress, eat lots of sweets, enjoy the view, then what’s even the point of celebrating Diwali?... Sarvesh Jain

“This Diwali never forget my friend, every cracker you burn becomes the ink in the pen that will sign the death warrant for your children and all the children in the world.” …  Abhijit Naskar

Two quotes about one festival, where one speaks about celebrating the festival with your best of the things the second speaks about responsibility to celebrate! Indeed, for ages my generation grew by living with first quote as it was the only time of the year when we use to get new clothes, the home got lighting (thanks to enthusiasm of my dad), there was new sweets every day (for four days) in succession & we use to burn fire crackers! Diwali vacation travels were not yet heard of; rather to remain away from the home in Diwali was considered as taboo & there wasn’t even a term like Diwali Gifts, which today has become a buzzword (though for commercial porpoise). Yet my mom used to give clothes & mithai to our house-maids but it was more of making their Diwali happy than expecting any returns in any kind! Today, I think we have forgotten the basic purpose of Diwali, as celebration yes there has to be & especially on the background of the grind, we all have gone through this year’s Diwali is special. For the last two years many people couldn’t even go to their native places & no question was there of Diwali vacation trips as travel was banned. Many families have suffered losses on the finance front as well health front & even with money at hand the mood of celebration wasn’t there. This Diwali, things seem to be settled a lot & here is where the responsibility factors come in the celebrations!

As I mentioned about burning fire crackers in my childhood, the second quote of Abhijit speaks about warning about the outcome of burning firecrackers & thankfully the drive against firecracker burning has shown its impact with the number of fire cracker’s sales decreasing with every passing year. We already have enough smoke, sound & light pollution so why add in it by burning fire crackers is the simple logic, right? As well this drive has shown the power of constantly hammering awareness impact on the young minds as this has been possible only via schools & colleges anti-fire cracker campaign (how I wish many seniors also should have been sent to schools)! So, we can use this effective medium (read as education in schools) to celebrate Diwali in a better way, rather let's use it to make us understand the true meaning of celebrating Diwali in the first place! Now, one will ask what’s there to understand the celebration, agreed not burning fire crackers is one aspect but isn’t it coming together, spending money, having fun with food, travel, shopping & things like that! Yes, it is what we call celebration but at the same time making us aware about the sharing aspect of the festival is something we are forgetting & if most of us will say, hey, come on, we do share, we buy gifts & present them to others then let me ask you who are these others which we give gifts which we call sharing?

Well, during Diwali loads of gifs are bought & shared & that indeed is a good thing as it makes entire market move in positive way but one glimpse of this gifting list & you will find either they are friends, relatives or public relation addresses & again nothing wrong about it as they are part of our life (read as success). But have we thought of sharing our good fortune with less fortunate ones on the occasion of Diwali, ask this question to yourself & do share your answer with me! Well, I am no saint or some philanthroper & I am not only the one who has seen the dark side or say the less fortunate side of life but many others have seen it. Point is, what we are doing about what we have seen (read as an unfortunate side of life) & what better occasion than Diwali to act up on what we have seen, as it can make some less fortunate people’s Diwali also wonderfully bright. And this doesn’t have to be spending in lakhs or crores, all this sharing needs is understanding of celebration! Tomorrow (before Diwali on any day) when you walk out of your home, make a list of faces you meet or see around who are worried about the day ahead & trust me you will see many such & not even the god can take care of all their problems but you can at least make them forget their problems with any small gift to these faces, on the occasion of Diwali. The gift may be your used pair of shoes, your used clothes, some Faral (sweets & namkins made at home for the festival) box or even towels anything in good condition or even new (welcome) can be of use to someone & give it (read as gift it) in a gift wrap to that face & see it will glow brighter than any lantern you have ever seen!

And yes, those who don’t have anything to share materialistically, they can at least share (share back as a return gift too) a genuine good smile & positive vibes as that also are enough to make someone’s mood bright! This is what I call a Sharingwali Diwali, where you share the best thing which you can gift & one can receive & that thing is, making a less fortunate person know that he or she is not alone, someone is there who thinks, feels & understands suffering & is willing to share part of his or her fortune with you! Try it this Diwali & see how much joy, happiness & brightens you will feel from within as outer world’s darkness can be lightened with thousands of lanterns but internal darkness can only be brightened with a little good act of sharing! So, guys what are you waiting for, take a small step forward & make this Diwali, Sharingwali!

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Sanjay Deshpande 

Sanjeevani Dev.

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