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Christmas Greetings and A Happy New Year

Christmas Greetings and a Happy New Year Dinesh K Kapila Christmas Greetings and A Happy New Year. Stay Blessed and Happy. Enjoy the warmth of your families and the spirit of a deep happiness which it triggers. Forget the petty differences and quarrels and reach out. As always, and as someone asked me, why am I wishing greetings on Christmas. Yes, as a Hindu by faith, culture and inclination, this is a relevant query, if one can say so. It’s not an objection per se, but more philosophical in intent. Well, to actually think it over, the closest I feel with my background and faith is Sikhism and then of course Jainism and Buddhism.   But then there are certain factors, firstly the Christian Branch of my family. That is of course one very important consideration. Add to it having studied in Convent Schools, this is only natural. Then Dad was in the Army, it’s a done thing to celebrate all festivals there, as also where I have worked all my life, even if the predominant number...