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Great Migration, Ghost Villages and Hiraeth

I was once shown a short movie by my relative depicting the great migration of people living in the villages of uttrakhand flocking away to big cities and it's capital in search of jobs and opportunities and leaving behind everything from their traditions to homelands. The festival highlighted was of 'Phooldeyi' in the month of March or the onset of spring. The video showed a person in his mid 20s who wanted to come back to his childhood home for the festival of phool deyi to be with his friends and enjoy the festival in its true essence in his village home like what they used to do in their childhood. But because of the demands of his job he couldn't get a leave from his job, but he was very adamant to go back hoping and assuming that his friends would do the same and be there waiting for him, so he resigned from his job to be in his village for the festival only to maintain the traditions and his commitment to friendship. To his surprise when he reached his village, i...
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I featured in a Youtube Video With 1M views.

 My whole Bachelors degree experience was quite amazing with initial 2 months spent in Ramjas College and rest of the tenure in Hansraj College, but during my short lived time in Ramjas College, me and my then college friends volunteered for a  youtube video being shot in our college and little did we all know that the video would get a Million views till date, so here I am sharing it’s link for it and its memories to be kept alive. Please skip to Mr. Alone part of the video ( timestamp 2:03 to 2:19) to watch me in action, or as the guy wanted, just a expression of disgust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipyXGfcAdQ&t=66s
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Festivals Come Early. Have brands become power bullies?

  Festivals in every religion are the occasion of unlimited joy, happiness and coming   together of individuals as a family or as a whole in society. Every major religion in the known historic past of humans have been associated with happiness which can come in the forms of socialising, cuisines, dancing, music, festivities or any other form compelling to an individual. But the recent times have seen a major shift in how we as individuals and as a society see a festival, because of our increasing circles in this growing world, the boundaries of happiness have reached a level where individuals can’t really define them for themselves, in rarest of occasions we see a set boundary for happiness. As we have no limit for the happiness anything can have, people have started to reach levels which were unknown in the past, which is subjective, as a result we have seen people lavishly investing in the material comforts. For example, a 5 year old kid is even happy by seeing the sight of ...
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