Our family loves Diwali. The light seeps into our hearts and our inner self glows with all the mellow happiness of good food and excess sweets. President Obama makes sure that he wishes folks a happy diwali too and I loved his message urging us all to remember our less fortunate brethen as we celebrate this wonderful festival. I tried to beat the greeters, but by the time I went online and blogged about a Diwali, folks were already losing the mellow looks that ghee and sweets bring on.
In fact, they seem to have gone a step further and are vying with each other to act nasty. Like this open challenge and I quote:
"A local religious leader has announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh for anyone, who spits on lawyer and BJP MP Ram Jethmalani’s face for describing Lord Ram as a bad husband."
Hardly the spirit of a wonderful holiday to pay good money for spitting at folks. Yet there it is: religious leaders are the ones apparently loaded with money enough to squander Rs 5 lakhs for some precious spittle. Ugh.
This seer went on to proclaim that "A threat presupposes violence and spitting is a harmless non-violent act." I doubt whether his stance would be the same if he were at the receiving end for some reason.
PS: I am not going into the the whole Ram-is-a-bad-husband argument for obvious reasons.
Nourish-n-Cherish 
Seriously I don’t know why these guys are not arrested for making all these stupid reward announcements. And I agree better not get into this argument because apparently no one looks at it from a women’s perspective.
🙂 Jas
ditto Jas!
oh wow!!! It would be such fun if the CBI decided to investigate from where he’s taking out this five lakhs….but I guess nowadays, this is peanuts!!
Even 5 crores is peanuts these days Roshni 😦