On 9/6/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
staff. Nevertheless Christmas is celebrated in the workplace with the same festive cheer and genuine goodwill that it is in any other part of the country.
As is Onam in Kerala, by all communities, and that is not my point.
I write this to make the point that Hindus at your workplace in India celebrating Hindu festivals while in a Muslim majority area per se does not mean anything much or can be taken to mean a big deal depending on what one wants to make of the fact.
On office expense. A company owned by a secular government. In which case it should either celebrate all festivals equally (and therefore have no time for work) or celebrate no festivals at all (which I personally prefer). Ram
