This is marriage season. Everywhere you will see some barat going on with all the band and dances. This is creating a kind of traffic cram in the city roads. While you are in one such jam, you have got two options only, either you frustrate with this jam and clapperclaw people for no civic sense or you will enjoy the barat procession. In either case you could not be able to change any thing except your that passing moment. Just by enjoying that, you can make that moment dulcet. And that is what I am doing, generally.
Yesterday evening while going back home, I got stuck in one such traffic. There one marriage party was going on with all the dance and crackers on the road. This had created a massive traffic jam. On the top of it, everyone was trying hard to come out of this traffic jam and hence had literally exacerbated the situation. It had created a great mayhem on the road. Even if I was the part of this heavy traffic, I was out of it and was enjoying this marriage procession. I was just observing people in this crowd, their enjoyment and their unusual dances. Very Indian dance with all those snake dance movement, tapori dances, wrestling dances and “Only God Knows” kind of dances. This marriage procession was of some Muslim family. Everything in that marriage was same like any other marriage of any community except one thing. And that one thing was the songs which band party was playing. All the songs were taken from only those films where either Arabic music was there or had portrayed some Muslim family. No one was asking band to play some recent popular hit numbers. This was something which aroused my interest the most.
We say that we the Indian are same and only our names are different. We say that we all share the same tradition called India. But we conveniently differentiate ourselves with others by strictly adhering to what we call is our own. A professional dancer can dance on any track irrespective of the fact that which religion he or she follows or which tradition that songs belongs to. But dances done in marriages indicates the common people of the country and their faith and beliefe. That is very much distinguishing from each other. And that distinguishing thing creates differences among us. Our faiths are so much strong in these traditions that we cannot think of deviating from it and stay intransigent about it. We refuse enjoying even on the songs which we feel is not ours and belongs to some other religion. This I feel somewhere leads to all the communal vexing. This somewhere tells us that though we are sharing the same space called India but we are totally different than others. And this is one “Diversity in Unity” and “Differences in Unity” and “Differentiation in Diversity”.
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