“English” New Year or “Telugu” Ugadi – Isn’t a reason enough to celebrate?

When the whole city is drenched in the fervor of New Year, few “righteous groups” are running after people with towels of cultural values, asking them to stop celebrating the “English” New Year.

The groups such as Raavan Dal and Yuva Asura Dal are propagating the idea that being an Indian moreover a Telugian (Telugu person) one should only celebrate Ugadi as a New Year, instead of following a foreign tradition. Also, they have suggested other regional New Years to choose from.

The members of these groups are flooding their friends’ Facebook profiles with anti New Year posts, as a result of which many silent Romeos are finding it strenuous to spot the post updated by their crushes.

Although this may be seen as a negligible propaganda now, but young corporate employees and students fear the extension of this revolution to other foreign traditions such as Valentines’ Day or even Mothers’ Day.

A not-so-popular-but-awesome blog Satire Specialist has stated that if these groups want to ban the “English” New Year and celebrate only Ugadi, they should better do away with English calendars and follow Telugu I-don’t-know-what-is-it-called (with all due respect).  

However, the statement has given these righteous groups one more reason to protest and now they are demanding for the ban of English Calendar.

                                                                           

With this latest protest, students and employees are comparing different calendar to see which version has more number of holidays – English or Telugu and support that side of baigan. They are also ope to the idea of referring to other linguistic calendars.

Meanwhile, within the Telugu speaking region, formerly known as Andhra Pradesh, politicians from Telangana region demand for a separate calendar, wherein they want to declare Bonalu as the beginning of New Year. The remaining part of the state is calling for a unified calendar, claiming they have created the months of present Telugu calendar.

All-in-all, everyone is protesting and fighting for something they want, so why not we do what we want – let’s celebrate New Year, irrespective of its origination.

Happy New Year