I didn’t celebrate Basant this time!
This festival means a lot to me. I, along with my friends and family, have been very enthusiasticly celebrating this event since my childhood.
There are quite a few reasons for which I didn't celebrate Basant festival this time, The main reason was the crises in our country didn't allow me to go and celebrate festivals when my own fellow activistst are on the road, struggling for a worthy cause i.e. Freedom of Judiciary, I will live my life with this guilt that I couldn't go for the Long March for personal family reasons. And instead of going on rooftops or at friends' house to fly kites and dance, I preferred to stick to my laptop to keep an eye on the rapid changing scenario and to report and cover each information I get from various sources. I have been covering Long March along with fellow bloggers through Twitter, see n report, and live coverage widget.
This festival means a lot to me. I, along with my friends and family, have been very enthusiasticly celebrating this event since my childhood. Buying kites and strings, music systems, Barbeque, lighting on Basant night, decorating rooftops, were the things which I used to do energeticly.
This time, my cousins and friends kept on asking to go with them and to celebrate the Spring festival! But how could I go? When so many are on the street to fight for Judiciary and in the events of rising crises, how could I dance, fly kites and celebrate a festival? So I didn't go and thought it's better to do my job of live coverage of the events that were taking place.
By posting this writeup, I didn't mean to glorify myself, I only did what was my responsibility. And this post is intended to give some coverage to the Basant (The Spring season festival). Till yesterday evening, I was kinda sad that Basant is over and I didn't participate but the real over-joy for me started when it was announced on TV that Judiciary is going to be restored, honestly.
Archival note: This post was originally published on the now-defunct blog guppu.com. It is being republished here solely for archival and record-keeping purposes.