LEAVES & HOLIDAYS
We in India, enjoy 'very limited Leaves & Holidays'. To name a few, Leave, for the start, the New Year and one to close year. The Leave for, getting Independence and one for becoming a Republic. Soon, we will have, one for loosing the same. Next, Leave for "Father's" birthday and one we will need to have for his death. Similarly, for his "brother" Chacha, we have. Then, in line is, Leave for every other religious festival, which I fear, could develop, for caste-based festivals. These all may be regular occurrences but what happens, to the Leave for voting, not voting and booth capturing. These are serious things; for playing also, likes winning a game, which for us of course is rare, so just for watching! May be I have left a few like "Labour day" (pun intended) Teachers' day, Children's' day, Martyrs' day, etc. This has prompted me to suggest a few more very necessary holidays and change in nomenclature. Actually one must be furious as to why U.N took upon itself, a date for World Population Day, when it must be the sole prerogative of India i.e. Bharat. I propose, Mr.Laloo Prasad Yadav's birthday should be, the World Population Day. I think the name of Mahatma's death day should be Terrorist Day and Mrs.Gandhi's should be changed to Ethnic Cleansing Day.
Jayalalitha's Birthday should be Corruption Promotion Day and Vajpayee's birthday should be 'Challenged' Day (pun intended). 1st April should be Bureaucrats Day. Well, we can go on adding to it and give ourselves many more Leaves, but I am afraid, we have only 365 days, in an year. On second thought, why not create leaves for night workers, like Labour night, Children's night, etc. and leave for watching pyjama cricket. I think our leaders will give a thought to this and deliberate on this, all-important issue, which is next only to hiking, their own pay and perks.