Group Discussion Contest : February 9th To 17th February 2012

Actually Valentine's day is the day on which a person whose name is valentine has expressed his love to his lover. From then that is known as Valentines day and finally it becames lovers day.

Actually it is not related to Indian culture. Its a western culture. As we Indian are habituated to western culture so In our India people are celebrating valentines day.

I feel Everyone who are in love they have their own valentine day on which day they have expressed their love to their love. Not the day feb14 is valentines day.

Yes i totally agree with the celebration of this lover day in India.

Valentine's day is a right day for Indian youth to share their particular love. In accordance with historical past It's a Traditional Western Event however now it is celebrating in Indian also. It's really a evening when youth communicate their partner feeling to each other.
It's a right day for Indian youth when they give Gifts, red flowers, blossoms, reddish products toy, handmade cards to each other. However there are many parents in India create several influence regarding controlling inside Valentine's Evening. These people search resorts, dining places, coffeehouses, and gift store about 14th Feb. to stop couples from providing each other Valentines or other present. The police man prohibit the purchase associated with reddish carnations, reddish stuffed animals, reddish homemade cards and other red-colored things etc.

Now this day is a part of our culture too.

I Disagree the Valentine’s Day may bring any problem to Native indian lifestyle, It is celebrating in India with a great honour.This give him power of express their emotion in front of their partner. Indians enjoy Valentine’s Day within exactly the same way they will celebrate Holi. Some people are not thinking like This .But the new generation is very much favour in Valentine's day.It give the exact Value for others, including respect for ladies.

we have been incorrect to blame it all about the Western. Those who have live in other countries they know that Valentine's Day is definitely in a peaceful way. In India no person is certainly going to disturbing gifts , Flowers to other lady or the unknown lady.This Valentine day is become wrong to the activity of some of the bad minded people.

Last but not the least Valentine day can be a day like some other festivals of the year that is used to show his/her love to our beloved ones.So in India people should enjoy it peacefully and gracefully.It is not not going to influencing our own culture , customs and lifestyle.

Valentine's day is not in our culture. We bought it from other country culture. This is celebrated on the honor of Valentine.

There are many great love stories in our country and the world but we are celebrating only this day as Valentines day.

In my opinion who are in love do not need the valentines day because every day is Valentines day for them.

If they are in love they will express their feelings every day with out waiting for valentines day.

At the outset,I would thank Kalyani for bringing up this subject again which acquires special relevance and importance in the month of February.Here again I would differ myself with!! Why February? A true practitioner of love never remains either conscious or attaches any importance to any particular month,hour or second.He or she responds to this eternal and most authentic of all human feelings.And St Valentine day is just one of such immortal tales of love. Unfortunately we witness the usual discordant notes on this particularly issue and it would be interesting to have a profound insight into the opponents and proponents of observing it in India. Let me take my argument step by step in the course of this discussion. In my next posts I hope to deal with them.

Now a day Valentine's evening is become a very special occasion and this is not very old but a current phenomenon in India.There are still many people or youth who think that this is a occasion on that they are free to express there love in front of their partner.They never think what other think on that day.They get a super power on this day and they freely express their expression and many of them also get success in doing that.After the proposal is excepted it continue for the whole of the year.So this day give them a platform to express their emotion in front of their partners.As we say this is only a platform from where they start their journey after that they might celebrate this on any day of year.India also celebrate it as the other countries celebrate it.Indian Youth like to give some memory of their love on that day to their partner.This include Flowers, Cards, Toys like taddy bears etc.

Not only the youth but there is a excitment in various sectors of the people.It show the importance of a valentine's day.There is a preparation for this day just beore one month ago. there is a lost of advertiments on the Tv set, radio and art print media .many shop decorates their shops on the eve of the Valentine day.They try to keep all possible type of flowers,Gifts items and other essential material at their store.
The Actual valentine day is celebrating in a restaurants, night clubs, Cineplex, pubs and also Pizzas shops.They decorate every thing specially for that day.So that youth or lovers can enjoy this night with full flows and without any hegitation. Even many of the Individuals also express love to their buddies, teachers, brothers and sisters and parents.This day does not means that it is only for the youth it is for everyone.On this Valentine's Day lover of all kinds exchanged gifts like Candies, clean blossoms, cards, gentle toys and sweets. This show their love for each others.
At last This influence our Indian Culture but in a postive manner.

What i would like to say is that Valentine's day is just another occasion to celebrate.........

India is a country of vast diversity, if we can celebrate Id, Diwali and Pongal, then what is the problem with Valentine's day???

Only because this celebration dwells from the western culture should not be the argument.....In that case celebrating Christmas and New Year should also be argued upon......

Moreover, the growing popularity of Valentine's day in India itself is the proof that people are accepting this day whole heartedly.....

Relevance should not be thrived upon till people are enjoying it......

So many things have been done against this day, and still it is celebrated like any other celebrations in India......it is the democracy of the people....we have the right to choose what is good or bad......

Now coming to the relevance of the day and its context in Indian conditions and culture.The very term 'culture' has different connotations interpreted from individual perspectives .Let us accept it that the culture which we call 'Indian' is a composite and plural one.We have been exposed to the global culture for thousands of years and the process of assimilation has been on since time immemorial.And whatever has been found to be good has been there and whatever has been found to be bad or not benficial has come under deeper scrutiny. If India is a rich cultural mosaic we simply can't ignore the outside influences.More so when the world is a global village now with IT revolution bringing people and their cultures nearer and closer to one another. I would continue in my next post.

I do not know how many people including those enthusiast about Valentine Day know much about st valentine and the origin of this day. This occasion was not known a few years back. This is of recent import and owes its popularity to the advertising and printing industry who do not want to ignore anything that may enhance their business.

Now we have everyday for one or the other occasion. even yesterday was Chocolate day. I am sure that we shall never have Chacha Tau or Bhua day as these relations are foreign to west.

Notwithstanding the fact that valentine day is foreign to Indian traditions, this has been adopted in India. In fact, the concept of Indian or foreign have lost meaning in global environment. Those who celebrate this day are happy. Also this does not harm any one. so let us welcome this just as we welcome New Year and Christmas, which are also western.

Though Valentine day is not ours but we made it as tradition.We celebrate this day whole heartily.we enjoy this day by wishing and by presenting a gift to our love.
we should know the significance of this day.

Leaving the conduct of two extremes - a section of irrational people who ususrp the role of 'Culture Police' if not 'Cultural Czars' and love to issue fiats to enforce their will on the masses and a section of lovers who make too much of it by being obtrusively demostrative,my mind rather seeks a valid explanation for this phenomenon - observing Valentine Day. Does a desire to proclaim our global citizenry work at the subliminal level in the minds of those who make it a point to express their love on this day! Frankly we don't have any dearth of icons in this respect.After all what best can inspire love than Taj Mahal and some of our legendary tales of love!!! And it's perfectly in order if someone looks beyond shores for inspiration!!

Valentine's day is a fine time to show your love to your beloved and on this day he or she can never refuse your proposal.

Ya its right we have not started this phenomenal occasion but now it is also celebrated like other festivals with full leverage

This is a very good topic for discussion point of view. According to me i think that Valentine's Evening is not to be a part of the any Western lifestyle. First of all can you say "What is this Western Culture? Every body response that Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Turkey, UK, and the US these are the country that have a same type of western culture. To my opinion it is a day specialized in appearance of affection and love. on this day many people show their emotion to the beloved one.More over this day provide him to take their beloved one to some dating and they tell all their words in front of them.They have no barrier in between them.
Many group of people see this day as different type.Even political parties engaged in that day.So that they can caught a couple on this day and give a suitable punishment to them.This is really a wrong example set by them.they does not matter in what they try to develop India economy and make India a peaceful country They only Engaged in such a thing that has no meaning.It is a political parties who tell that this is a western culture. many people Celebrate Ganpati and Durga puja in different part of the countries.And at night they take drinks and other thing that is not allowed on that day.Government does not oppose such thing.They only show there force on a Valentine day.this Idea must be change.

I enjoy Valentine's Day time one of the most because it does not at all harm The type. It's just about expressing your love for individuals you love probably the most. By doing that we are not polluting drinking water, Polluting environment, creating no sound pollution.We celebrate it in a peacefull manner.So according to me this is one of the special event which has managed to exceed the particular superficial boundaries of intercourse, caste and religion.

This is a very good topic for discussion point of view. According to me i think that Valentine's Evening is not to be a part of the any Western lifestyle. First of all can you say "What is this Western Culture? Every body response that Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Turkey, UK, and the US these are the country that have a same type of western culture. To my opinion it is a day specialized in appearance of affection and love. on this day many people show their emotion to the beloved one.More over this day provide him to take their beloved one to some dating and they tell all their words in front of them.They have no barrier in between them.
Many group of people see this day as different type.Even political parties engaged in that day.So that they can caught a couple on this day and give a suitable punishment to them.This is really a wrong example set by them.they does not matter in what they try to develop India economy and make India a peaceful country They only Engaged in such a thing that has no meaning.It is a political parties who tell that this is a western culture. many people Celebrate Ganpati and Durga puja in different part of the countries.And at night they take drinks and other thing that is not allowed on that day.Government does not oppose such thing.They only show there force on a Valentine day.this Idea must be change.

I enjoy Valentine's Day time one of the most because it does not at all harm The type. It's just about expressing your love for individuals you love probably the most. By doing that we are not polluting drinking water, Polluting environment, creating no sound pollution.We celebrate it in a peacefull manner.So according to me this is one of the special event which has managed to exceed the particular superficial boundaries of intercourse, caste and religion.

To the question whether Valentines day is western culture, we cannot reply in the negative. This is of western origin. However, there are many other practices of western origin. This is global world. We cannot confine ourselves to only that which is purely Indian. We speak in English, a language of western origin, wear European type dress, follow constitution and law that is on western pattern. Even the concept of democracy is of western origin.

We may oppose something if this is harmful. Valentine Day is of western origin but India has adopted this like many other things. This is certainly not harmful. The hooliganism against celebration of this occasion is undesirable.

Indians celebrate World woman's day, May day, Friendship day, Father's day, Mother's day and of course Fool day :laugh: . Then what is the problem with this 'Valentine's day' only?
Is it because, according to Indian culture, most parents or family don't allow their children to have lovers and they want them to be settled with arranged marriages only? I think this is the reason why so many are there to protest this day, in the name of love.
I think if it was named as a husband_wife day, then nobody will find a problem with this.
What do you say?

More things to say. But let anyone say his opinion on this point. :)

Indians celebrate World woman's day, May day, Friendship day, Father's day, Mother's day and of course Fool day :laugh: . Then what is the problem with this 'Valentine's day' only?
Is it because, according to Indian culture, most parents or family don't allow their children to have lovers and they want them to be settled with arranged marriages only? I think this is the reason why so many are there to protest this day, in the name of love.
I think if it was named as a husband_wife day, then nobody will find a problem with this.
What do you say?

More things to say. But let anyone say his opinion on this point. :)

There appears no case for opposing this for saving Indian culture. If this were so, there is no reason why only Shiva Sena and Bajrang Dal oppose this. There may be parents opposed to love making by their daughters or sons but this is family affair. The parents and their children may take their stand on celebrating this day but the organizations like Shiva Sena have no business to oppose or harass boys and girls celebrating this. The Shiva Sena and Bajrang Dal will not permit even husbands and wives to celebrate this western function.

"The Shiva Sena and Bajrang Dal will not permit even husbands and wives to celebrate this western function. "
It is really a bad thing. But I want to know whether they opposes Friendship day, Women's day or worker's day.
Gulshanji, can you tell something about this?