On Wed September 6 2006 11:44 am, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: > No, I haven't spent Christmas in a hospital in Bradford. Why would I?
Many areas of Bradford in the UK are Asian/Muslim majority areas. Hospitals and business establishments often have a large number of Asian Muslim/Hindu 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. 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. shiv
