(OT)Re: [HSF] Broken fenur

[Tea Acuff]

I am confused as to whether your (Indian) multiple holidays derive from the Hindu value of pantheism or the British concept of fairness, as a secular fairness to all and perhaps secualrly irrelevant religions. Or an Indian syncretism of both. Classical British "fairness" I would proprose does not provide for the category of irrelevant.  (A subject way "off topic".) Feel free to take private.
Tea


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From: prasannasimha <prasannasimha at gmail.com>
To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 5:08:26 AM
Subject: Re: (OT)Re: [HSF] Broken fenur


India is by definition in its constitution  a  "Secular Democratic 
Republic" country so we have Holidays for major religious groups.(You 
will be surprised to note that there are many countries that have 
"Democracy" in their constitution but are not labeled "Secular" in it - 
how this is interpreted and used and misused by all politicians around 
the world (including India) is a different story !!) So Christmas is a 
Holiday and while I may not celebrate it in the traditional sense , 
there a re a lot of Christian staff nurses etc who do celebrate it . 
Similarly we have Holidays for Hindu, Muslim , Buddhist Parsi and Jain 
festivals too. Some of these are "general holidays" and some are called 
"Restricted Holidays". So we are allotted  "X" no of General Holidays 
and  "Y" number of restricted Holidays and we can choose the Restricted 
Holidays according to our liking (provided it doesn't interfere with 
work) .
Christmas and Good Friday are the usual Christian General Holidays 
similarly  Id and last day of Ramzan are Muslim General holidays . There 
are a lot of Holidays for Hindu's since we have a a large Hindu Pantheon 
and there are Mandatory Holidays like Independence day and Republic Day etc.
Prasanna
Hgrmd at aol.com wrote:
> Prasanna,
>   Today is a holiday for you also?  Do you celebrate Christmas,  or is it 
> some other holiday?
> Hal
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