The Land Of Lakshmi

Its DIWALI today. As the sun sets in the western sky and the begins spreading it arms all around slowly the age old procession of lighting lamps will begin. Little lights twinkling in the face of darkness. A great metaphor indeed for the relentless human struggle against darkness within and without. But the metaphor does not ends here. As India proceeds to acquire the status of a superpower among the great fraternity of civilised nations with free markets in one hand and nuclear bomb in the other Diwali too is witnessing a metamorphic mutation. The flirting lights , the sparkling crackers, the glittering dresses , the dazzling markets....all these have become the new metaphors of diwali. A metaphor of India shining in a sea of dinge. The anti-avatar of Lakshmi in a new age for a new country in awe of its newly discovered greatness...'india unbound' as they say!