essay on Diwali celebration amidst COVID19.
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It was April 5, 2020. As soon as the clock struck 9 pm, the nation that was locked down broke into a celebration with diyas, candles and fireworks. While TV anchors were in a festive mood, leaders were seen chanting mantras on channels. It was Diwali before Diwali. This time the celebration came before time. People greeted each other with ‘Happy Diwali’ shouts from balconies and in the streets.
The event showed the secular state has fully reached its mythical state. It has become what anthropologist Clifford Geerts has called ‘Negara’: the theatre state in its full sense. From warding off evils to dispelling the darkness, from lighting candles to banging the pans and pots, from calming the virus – “Corona shant ho jao, shant ho jao corona (Calm down, Corona)” – to driving away the demon – “Corona Go, Go Corona” – India’s response to COVID-19 is so far is not only unique, but most hilarious
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This time of the year, Chandana, 33, would have been busy preparing for Ganesh Chaturthi. She would be mall hopping and making multiple trips to her favourite shops to buy new saris for herself and relatives, sometimes jewellery, among other things. “But now I am scared to step out. For the first time, I am shopping for saris online,” she said.
Every year, come Ganesh Chaturthi, various businesses related to the festival get invigorated – from idol-making to flower growers and sellers, and from shamiyana on rent to band troupes. But this year is different. A surge in the number of COVID-19 cases in the city has meant that people are planning low-key festivities, which in turn has meant that this festive season is going to be a damp squib for the businesses.
G.M. Diwakar, a flower trader, said that the Ganesh Chaturthi market is huge and diverse, which includes idol-making, clothes, jewellery, flower business, band troupes, shamiyana. “Thousands of rupees are spent even on a small Ganesh pandal on flowers and shamiyana. But as there is no public installation and immersion of Ganesh idols this year. Hence, all related businesses have fallen flat,” he said.
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