Interesting topic! When I first saw it, I thought that it was some joke or something else funny relating to Christmas in India...


You see... India has a huge population count as we all know. Christians are a minority here, around 2.3%. But 2.3% of India's population is over 40% of Britain's population. So Christmas is far from neglected out here.

Gifts, Christmas trees and the like are very common. But I will surely not get any.

This is a bit off topic, but did you know that there are theories which state that Jesus passed away in India?

(Don't touch these links if you aren't interested in nerdy things which will get you nowhere in life)

http://www.aaiil.org/uk/newsletters/2001/1001ukbulletin.pdf

http://hamsa.org/resurrection.htm



You must remember that there are thousands of people from every religion out here. And even 1% of our total population is greater than the total of many European countries. And every single state has it's own different festivals and customs. Here are major Hindu festivals of my state, which is called West Bengal :

Durga Puja is the biggest festival out here. We get a long holiday of over one month during the months of September/October/November.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durga_Puja

Also...

Diwali

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali

Holi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi

These are the major ones. There are loads others. Feel free to ask questions if you have any.

Akhenaten wrote:

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Greenleaf wrote:

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This is a bit off topic, but did you know that there are theories which state that Jesus passed away in India?

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He died in Japan too...

http://www.samsloan.com/jesusjap.htm"> http://www.samsloan.com/jesusjap.htm

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Nice ones! Thanks. The first link doesn't work.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 11:28, 2006-12-21