Celebrating Bogus Bhogi and Pongal
On Wednesday Jan 13 Tamil Nadu celebrated Bhogi. A festival celebrated on the last day of the last month of the Tamil year. This is the time of the year when I become that much more heavier. In a way pongal can be said as the New year in Tamil Nadu. People say Bhogi is about burning the old and starting afresh. Perhaps we were never good at metaphors or we just refuse to dont want to understand. No wonder the Indian constitution is one of the longest, given we find loopholes to exploit.We Indians have the best brains in the world. No one knows better than us about how to misconstrue quotes like the above. We asked Dubakoor Guru and he came out with this to help them How to create artificial mist in Chennai and justify it? 1. Burn lots of paper and bed sheets. 2. If people question why? say you are burning new and starting afresh and that is the essence of bhogi 3. If that doesn't convince them, then say they are destroy our culture ...