Is a special day like Valentine's Day really necessary to show you love someone?

Pradeep Kumar Nanda wrote:
[quote]Love is the most beautiful thing in this world. Those who are lucky enough gets their true love. Those people doesn't need to celebrate their love in public.

I agree with other members comments we celebrate other special days like Deepawali, Durga puja etc, where lots of money are spent.Likewise, we should celebrate this valentine day as any other special day forgetting from where it has come.
I disagree, as with other festivals which we celebrate like Deepawali, Laxmi Puja etc, we learn good things,but during the Valentine's day we learn many bad things which are culture of the western tradition but not accepted according to the Indian culture.
The Valentine's Day is generally celebrated by teen age generations.They don't know the true meaning of the this day, rather they take it in wrong way.

Instead of celebrating love in this Valentine Day, they think that this is the day to do anything infront of public in the name of love.There is always a tendency to accept bad things very quickly then to learn good things from this Valentine Day.

Again, the hype created by the media about Valentine Day makes the thing worse. This special day is destroying our culture.
Yes, this day we are helping poor people indirectly but at what cost.We are helping poor at the cost of our rich culture.[/quote]

It may be correct that valentine days celebration teaches many bad things. This is true about many festivals of Indian origin as well. There are human weaknesses and these are revealed on many occasions. There is lot of vulgarity in Holi festival also. People drink wine on this day. Deepawali is a festival of gambling and bribe. Valentine Day is more pure and clean.

We need not bother about origin of festivals. Let us celebrate what pleases us. As regards commercialization, all festivals are commercialized. Let us not envy those who make earning out of festivals. Expenditure on festivals results in employment and earning to many.

Yes, I agree that other festivals also teaches bad things to us which are of Indian origin and compare to them Valentine Day is pure and clean.

Valentine day is introduced in India just few years back. No doubt,about the sanctity of the occasion, but this festival is mostly celebrated by young and teenage people, who just get carried away with the bad side of the culture.

My debate is why should we allow a culture which teaches bad things among youths when we already have special occasions in the name of Holi, Deepawali where people learn bad things.This special day only add to it and decrease it.

Those who love each other doesn't require any special day to celebrate their love. Whenever, they want to celebrate their love they can throw a party among close friends or go in for a candle light dinner or give an gift to their loved one, etc.

Love is one thing which doesn't require a particular day to celebrate.This Valentine Day is only teaching bad things among the youths rather then teaching inner meaning of true love.

Valentine day was first celebrated in the western countries and then later it got spread to the Asian Countries. In western nations we can see they celebrate lots of festival and they love to party. This is also might be one of the reasons why such day was emerged. Is there any proof for this day?

We have origin for other days like Diwali, Christmas day, Ramzan and so on. These festivals have proof and it has an origin. Like that do we have anything for Valentine's day. According to me you need not need a day to express your love to your loved ones. Whether this is necessary........????

As deivigan stated there is no valid reason or history behind celebrating valentine's day. All the theories based on "Saint Valentine" are assumptions and there is no solid proof to prove it. Also, we have a tendency to import all unwanted things from European countries without analyzing the requirements of it. But is there any country in this world which has imported any of the festivals followed in India praising its importance?

I accept to the views of Nagalakshmi only we are the copy cats and we follow what they follow blindly without no reasons. These kind of celebrations will be good for their culture. For those people it is necessary because many teenagers when they start earning they will live alone and they will not depend on any one even their parents.

I saw a movie called Outsourcing in that the person from America who used to be the hero of the film and he will narrate his life style to his Indian Assistant that he will meet there parents only once in two years even if they stay in the same town. This clearly tells that western nation people want these kind of days to express their Love to their Loved ones or to their parents.

We follow the tradition of Joint Family or even stay separated. However we will meet either in the weekend or atleast we will talk by phone or chat with them in person. We, the people of India we gather for all kinds of function like Marriage, House hold ceremony and many other functions and after all the meetings and love exposure DO WE STILL REQUIRE A SPECIAL DAY TO EXPRESS OUR LOVE?

I totally agree with what deivigan said. The people in foreign countries hardly find time to spend with their families. They are in need of some festive days like Mother's day, Father;s day and Valentine's day to express that they still love their dear ones. But in a country like India where people are known for their love and affection they have towards their family this sort of festive days are really not needed.

It's completely unnecessary. If you have someone, why do you need 1 day to tell them? And if you don't have someone, why do you need to find someone? It's just a money-making day.

Valentines Day is un "necessary"

if you do not have someone to spend it with. But if you look at it that way, then Christmas is not "necessary" if you are Jewish; and Independence Day is not necessary if you are from a different country.

If you don't have a significant other to spend the holiday with, you could either skip out on that holiday (like you would do on Christmas if you were Jewish) or take it as an opportunity to find a significant other.

sumit wrote:
[quote]Valentines Day is un "necessary"

if you do not have someone to spend it with. But if you look at it that way, then Christmas is not "necessary" if you are Jewish; and Independence Day is not necessary if you are from a different country.

If you don't have a significant other to spend the holiday with, you could either skip out on that holiday (like you would do on Christmas if you were Jewish) or take it as an opportunity to find a significant other.[/quote]

Valentine day is not obligatory for all. I agree to this. But those who celebrate this should not be humiliated or discouraged. Valentine day is voluntary like all other festivals. No festival is compulsory. You cannot force some one even to celebrate Independence day. It is the individual spirit that counts.

As long as there are individuals who wish to express love on the Valentine day, this festival will be celebrated. There is no need to support or oppose this. We cannot also oppose the business of cards and flowers sale on this occasion. We are free market economy and democracy. Hence all celebrations and connected activities are permissible. Those who do not like the festival for any reason can definitely avoid this.

I am not against "Valentine's Day". Some people think that it came from western culture and does not match our indian culture. This statement is also true but as we celebrate other days, we should celebrate this day as well. We celebrate days that belongs to people like Friendship's Day, Father's Day, Teachers Day, Mother's Day. So, i think we should also celebrate Valentine's Day as this day belongs to that special person whom we love the most.

If you love some one then it is not necessary that you should wait till this day to show him/her how much you love. But this day is very special day dedicated to special person of your life. There are many pros and cons of this day like best day for making huge profits, even " A Rose" flower will cost you around 50 bucks on this day but at the same time, it shows your affection, your love for your beloved.

DO you know one thing the cost of a single Bangalore Rose on Valentine Day is Rs.30/- which is just a fifteen rupee on the other days. Moreover it was really hard to get Roses on that as it was totally on demand and also costlier. I could not understand how people still buy them even it is costlier?

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I am against this Valentine's day celebration.Actually we had changed our culture by accepting celebrations like trhese.

We are a part of consumer society.So the market analysers are looking how this can be made advanatage.Every thing and every day are observed to marketise.So they introduced the best way for this , a day celebration.As the whole world is celebrating we poor Indians also thought that it is a status symbol.But we were misguided.

There are some comments on undesirability of days specially devoted to 'mother, 'father', 'friend' borrowed from west. Celebration of any festival or event is individual choice and we need not interfere. But I may point out that there are also such festivals of Indian origins. There is Brothers' day called Bhai Dooj, Sisters' day called 'raksha bandhan' husbands' day called 'karwa Choth'. similarly, Valentine Day is Lovers' day.

Valentines Day gifts are expensive. Flowers are always like $30 more. Plus, whats is your incomes like? Do you have more money than him? Did he take you out to dinner? It's not easy answering this for you.

so its not all about gift its truly & only about love

sumit wrote:
[quote]Valentines Day gifts are expensive. Flowers are always like $30 more. Plus, whats is your incomes like? Do you have more money than him? Did he take you out to dinner? It's not easy answering this for you.

so its not all about gift its truly & only about love[/quote]

Expensive gift is not peculiar to Valentine day. Husbands give costly gifts to wives on Karwa Choth, Brothers to sister on Raksha Bandhan and so on. About Deepawali, less said the better. There are expensive gifts which are really bribe from businessmen to various govt departments- Customs & Excise, Income tax, Sales Tax, Labor Department and so on.

It is best to celebrate all festivals economically and avoid costly gifts on Deepawali, Karwa choth, Raksha bandhan and also on Valentine Day.