INDIA IS SUCH A BIG NATION.EVERY OTHER NATION RESPECTS HER CULTURAL,NATURAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL HERITAGE. INDIA'S VAST LAND MASS,ITS POSITION,ITS BIODIVERSITY,ITS CULTURE,AYURVEDA,,ITS DIVERSE FEATURES,AND DIVERSE SPECIES MAKES IT UNIQUE. THIS BIG AND DIVERSE COUNTRY'S UNITY AND FUTURE LIES IN THE HANDS OF ITS YOUNGSTERS.RIGHT NOW THEY ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT FRAGILE WAR TO CHOSE EITHER THEIR CULTURE AND IDENTITY OR CHOSE THE CULTURE AND IDENTITY OF THE WEST.THEIR BRAIN WANTS TO OPT FOR MORE ADVANCED WESTERN CULTURE BUT THEIR HEART WANTS TO REMAIN SUB-CONTINENTAL AND HAVE THEIR OWN IDENTITY.
UN HAS DECLARED MANY CULTURES,LANGUAGES,AND RELIGIONS AS ENDANGERED AND MOST OF THE ENDANGERED PERCENTAGE LIES IN INDIA ITSELF IN THOSE CULTURES WHERE THERE ARE MOSTLY YOUNGSTERS.
WE CAN TAKE AN EXAMPLE OF TWO PAHADI COMMUNITIES-GARHWALI AND KUMAONI.THESE TWO COMMUNITIES TOGETHER FORMS A STATE OF UTTARAKHAND.
AS SAME AS LIKE THE OTHER COMMUNITIES OF INDIA IT IS MORE POPULATED BY YOUNGSTERS AND SEES THEM AS THEIR FUTURE.THE TWO CULTURES ARE CONSIDERED ENDANGERED BECAUSE THEY FIT EQUALLY IN ALL THE LEVELS OF ENDANGERED FILLS.IF YOU SEE THE CLOTHINGS EVEN THE TRADITIONAL DRESS OF MEN IS COMLETELY UP STYLE NOW.THE TRADITIONAL GARHWALI GOL TOPI AND KUMAONI TOPI ARE NOT IN EXISTENCE AND THEIR PLACE HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY HIMACHALI TOPI UP'S TOPI AND NEPALI TOPI.
IN CASE OF FEMALES THERE IS A TYPE OF VERY BIG NOSE RING WORN BY THE FEMALES OF BOTH GARHWAL AND KUMAON BUT NOW IT HAS JUST BECAME AS THE SIZE OF AN ORDINARY INDIAN NOSE RING.
THERE IS A TYPE OF ODHNI CALLED PICHODA WORN BY BRIDES IN KUMAON.IT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE EMBROIDED WITH GOLD AND SAFFRON.THERE WAS ALSO A CUSTOM OF PASSING IT ON TO FROM GENERATIONS TO GENERATIONS,BUT NOW IT IS VERY FAST DEPLETING.IF WE ASK ABOUT ITS DANCE FORMS,THE TRADITIONAL DANCE FORMS LIKE THADIA TANDI CHAUFLA,RASO,ETC. ARE VERY scarcely USED IN THEIR ORIGINAL FORMS.IF WE TALK ABOUT FESTIVALS THIS REGION IS FILLED WITH DIFFERENT REGIONAL FESTIVALS WHICH CAN VARY FROM ONE MONT TO EVEN 12 YEARS.IF YOU COME HERE YOU WILL NEVER GET BORED BECAUSE OF ITS BEAUTY,COLORFUL CULTURE,VADIS AND ADVENTUROUS SPORTS AND MUCH MORE.
THE COMMON FESTIVALS LIKE DIWALI,IS CELEBRATED IN THE WAY DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS IN WHICH BHAILO IS PLAYED IN WHICH THE FRUITS AND BARK OF THE CHIR PINE ARE USED LIKE CRACKERS.
THIS IS ALSO VERY HARDLY PLAYED. IF WE TALK ABOUT THE REGIONAL FAIRS AND FESTIVALS THERE ARE FESTIVALS LIKE PANDAV NIRTYA CHAKRAYUH,GHUGUTI,KANDALI,DEVTA DOLI MOVEMENT PROAGRAMES,ETC.
BUT THESE FESTIVALS AREALO GETTING WORN OUT DUE TO URBANIZATION AND INCREASING IMPACT OF FOREIGN CULTURE.AND MOST SHOCKING THING IS THAT NANDA DEVI RAJJAT WHICH IS THE BIGGEST FESTIVAL OF THE STATE WHICH HAS NO OFFICIAL HOLIDAY IN THE STATE IS NOT EVEN CONSIDERED AS A FESTIVAL BY SOME LOCALS.GOVERNMENT SHOULD AT LEAST GIVE AN OFFICIAL HOLIDAY FOR THIS IN THE STATE AS IT HAPPENS AFTER EVERY 12 YEARS AND IS OFTEN CONSIDERED AS THE HIMALYAN KUMBH.
BUT CANT IT BE OKAY TO SIMPLIFY A CULTURE?I MEAN THAT IF MAN IS MODERNIZING SO WHY NOT ALL? ON HAVE TO CHANGE ITSELF FROM TIME TO TIME SO THAT HE CAN SURVIVE.I HAVE AN EXAMPLE.THERE WAS A VILLAGE IN WHICH THERE WAS A FOREST OF FRUIT BEARING PLANTS WHOSE FRUITS WERE VERY DELICIOUS AND NUTRITIOUS.PEOPLE STARTED HAVING THEM IN THE PLACE OF THEIR REGULAR MEALS DUE TO WHICH THE FOREST ALSO STARTED GETTING DEPLETED.TO PREVENT THIS GOD SEND HIS RULES DOWN TO STOP OVER EATING THE FRUITS AND MADE A RULE THAT ONLY ONE FRUIT WILL BE EATEN BY THE PERSON AT ONE DAY.PEOPLE STARTED FOLLOWING THAT RULE AND AS THEY WERE ADDICTED TO THAT FRUIT AND ATE ONLY THAT FRUIT AND THUS BECAME FRAIL.ON SEEING THIS GOD AGAIN GAVE HIS ORDERS TO UN FOLLOW HIS RULES BUT NOW THE PEOPLE SAID THAT IT IS OUR CUSTOM AND WE WON'T LEAVE IT AND AS A RESULT THE PEOPLE OF THAT REGION SOON DIED A FRAGILE DEATH.
SO FROM THE ABOVE DISCUSSION SHALL WE FOLLOW OUR ENDANGERED CULTURE OR LEAD THEM TO DIE A BAD DEATH?
IF WE WON'T FOLLOW OUR CULTURE AND TRADITIONS THEN WHO WILL SAVE OUR CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE?
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