Faux Festivals

I don’t mean offense to any religion or religious people, but I have really begun to think, isn’t it high time we tone down our religious-ism? On an average there are at least 15 such occasions yearly. On these days, either processions are taken out, or people congregate at certain places or hold some programmes or something or the other, which for the not – so – enthusiastic means traffic jams,  sleepless nights thanks to the idea that the omnipresent one is unable to hear its subjects without  loudspeakers, all kinds of waste strewn all over the place.. is it really fair to subject all residents of a place to what should be essentially a personal matter?

Or maybe there’s a reason why people put up with it.. maybe this business is an actual business, maybe there’s an entire economics behind this which enables it to subsist and even grow.. I don’t know..Still learning so much each day.. All I know is, I could do with a good night’s sleep.