Diwali: The festival of beauty!

What an avalanche of beauty it was…logging into my facebook account today. So many beautiful pics, all cascading together on my screen one after another and making it a sight to behold. Diwali was supposed to be a festival of lights celebrating the victory of good over evil but  it now appears to be a festival of beauty—celebrating the beauty of the ideal Indian woman in all her roles—mother, wife, daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, sister-in law, friend, colleague. Diwali seems to hold more meaning for women as compared to men.

Most husbands across geographies and time-zones preferred to stick to simple colours when it came to choosing the right traditional outfit for diwali. And they allowed their wives to hog all the limelight with hundreds of likes streaming on each photograph. But the women really impressed…red, yellow, maroon, white…every conceivable colour was combined with pure gold ornaments for the right effect. Black the universal colour to hide curves was given a miss…and so were salwar kameez it was sarees all the way.

Most of us still need a guiding light

I have been using social media for more than a decade now since orkut brought us all together and like a shameless voyeur I read every scrap, saw every photograph that was uploaded. Talking about Orkut in 2015 is like talking about nether regions…no one wants to admit that they read each other’s scarp books. But one thing is sure, faith in god has increased over time.

• Money, technology, global influence…these are elements which make man independent of God and more in control of his life but I don’t see that happening for the next 30-40 years. Deep down everyone wants to stay connected to a higher power, a guiding light and people with billions stashed in their bank accounts, who grace my list are still as ordinary in front a “diya” as any other mortal.
• If festivals like Diwali can strengthen man-woman relationships, I pray that all 200+ countries of the world celebrate it as it would bind the western societies together that are struggling to hold together the basic unit of family.
• Indians, manage such large families, so effortlessly, probably because our calendar is conceived in such a way that makes men and women think about friends and family at least once in a month under some pretext be it Holi, Eid, Rakhi, Dassera, Diwali, Lohri...we in India are still together probably because we have these auspicious days to bind us together.

Was it something special?

Lastly, I did notice a glow on the face of these women…I’m sure husbands did play some role in ensuring that their wives had that much-needed glow on their faces all evening. Can’t elaborate on this…all of you are intelligent enough to understand what I want to say and what I don’t want to say. Most men whom I saw yesterday in the photographs were still as much in love with their wives as they were ten years back during orkut days, though I feel they love their kids more than their partners. Even though most wives are no longer as sexy as they were ten years ago, I still don’t see an iota of disenchantment amongst men for their wives who may have acquired those love handles. They fully know they are in right hands and would eat food prepared by their better half and no one else.