Thinking of my Christmas celebrations. Since childhood, I used to celebrate Christmas. Not because this was Jesus Christ's birthday or anything like that. No, in Delhi, among friends, we used to have our tree decorations.
Not sure how it started. I was not in a missionary school initially and my friends were not Christian. Anyway, so we would go around collecting big dried branches of trees. Would put the branch in the ground, and then would start hanging things on the tree. It used to usually milk bottle caps (made of foil) which hang with trees and then there would be the cut-outs from the Amul Butter boxes of the smiling Amul girl.
When I was a bit older, schools changed, more because we moved around. This was a missionary school and here we had Christmas decorations. They would set-up a big tree in the Cathedral and decorate that. And Mass in the Cathedral, which my Christian friends would go and attend.
In US, I thought I would get to see celebration, but I was surprised. This was a time for people to spend with their families. So Christmas actually meant solitude and silence, empty malls and empty roads.
Not sure how it started. I was not in a missionary school initially and my friends were not Christian. Anyway, so we would go around collecting big dried branches of trees. Would put the branch in the ground, and then would start hanging things on the tree. It used to usually milk bottle caps (made of foil) which hang with trees and then there would be the cut-outs from the Amul Butter boxes of the smiling Amul girl.
When I was a bit older, schools changed, more because we moved around. This was a missionary school and here we had Christmas decorations. They would set-up a big tree in the Cathedral and decorate that. And Mass in the Cathedral, which my Christian friends would go and attend.
In US, I thought I would get to see celebration, but I was surprised. This was a time for people to spend with their families. So Christmas actually meant solitude and silence, empty malls and empty roads.
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