Titles: Leave in Sorrow, Punish. (Chelvani) I remember, in my childhood, my grandmother used to open a potli first. Then taking out a small bag from the bag, wallet from the bag, handkerchief from the wallet and taking out a rupee coin from the handkerchief and giving it to you very lovingly! Same goes for Sunday holidays. A simple coin called “Sukh” means Sunday! On Sundays you will hear a few words from house to house – 'Let's do something' or 'Let's plan something.' If you don't do anything special on Sunday, 'what to do?' and 'What couldn't you do?' Worrying about it alone can give you thousands of heart attacks. There is a word in Gitaji: 'Akarma'. It's Sunday, it's time to celebrate 'A-Karma'. Toy Mangamata is Sunday's burning problem: 'boredom'. If you are married, your wife or husband will suddenly throw the paper out of your hand and say, 'Do you read the horoscope like every week? Think about today's present. Something exciting? What is this life?' You will feel like saying, 'Till now you were busy reading and now you are bored with the print, so life started to feel boring? Suddenly the great knowledge of 'something must be done' appeared?' Sunday is the same thing. Even by mistake, while reading an article in the Sunday supplement, 'Oops…what is happening in the society?' If you say that, everyone will immediately ask, 'What happened? What happened?' You will naively share the news that – 'A housewife in Chandigarh divorced the groom, because he did not take his wife out on Sundays and used to steal the bus!'… and that's it! Immediately the female-characters of the house will break down: 'That alone in it? Is it not the groom's responsibility to take his wife to see the picture? Even though he was dead in the theater there!' Then you have to bow your head by keeping silent from all men! Interval: Hazaroon khwahishen aisi ki har khwahish pe dum nikle, itwar manane ke arman the, har arman kam nikle. (with apologies to 'Galib') You would believe that till 1890 there was no weekly holiday like Sunday in India! Under the rule of the British, the laborers had to work seven days a week, but the British got a day off because the holiday in English was called 'holiday' meaning 'holy day' and it was a day for the whites to go to church. Then an Indian mill labor leader named Narayan Meghaji Lokhande appealed to the British government that the Indian laborers should also get a day off, which was completely rejected by the British. Then Lokhandeji rallied the laborers with iron vigor and through the 'Bombay Hands Association', for the first time in 1881, launched a massive agitation for a change in the Factories Act. 10,000 workers from across the country announced a strike at the race course ground in Mumbai and finally on 10th June 1890, the whites had to accept that Indian workers would also get Sunday off and a half hour 'lunch-break' in the afternoon. So thank you Lokhandeji, even for giving 'Sunday holiday', just as happiness and sorrow do not last forever, Sunday also does not last. They come and go and are left behind, the evergreen unfinished questions… On Monday, get caught up in the work-business that everyone breaks down asking each other questions-'What fun did you have on vacation?' Or 'What should we do on vacation so that the other person is impressed? As if Sunday fun is as compulsory as 'Aadhaar Card', let us be destitute. Sometimes I feel like saying in anger that 'We climbed the Himalayas this Saturday and came down on Sunday! Speak now?' Or 'On Sunday, we rented a rocket and spent Saturday and Sunday on Venus. When the holiday comes next Tuesday, we will go to the planet Mercury, we will also go to Jupiter on the holiday of Gurupurnima! Do you want to come?' In fact, on vacation we mostly either do stupid things like grocery shopping or hang out at the mall, or are lazy. But let us say: 'Slept all Sunday.' So all those rascals will say, 'Wow, 'recharged' yourself on Sunday, eh?' Do you think that your body is a mobile battery or that four-five hours of sleep gives us a buzzing job? Take Sattvic Ananda by visiting the sick in the hospital on many Sundays! Some consider reading magazines and books as a great artistic activity. Everything that was not read during the week will be swallowed together like a vitamin pill on Sunday! Marked a typical Sunday talk? You will want to read the same page that is in the hand of another member of the household! A photo of Switzerland printed on a page in someone else's hand will suddenly make you fall in love and you will try to snatch that page! Also, T. Out of 350 channels of V., not a single channel is worth watching and no web series is per se, that's why Rascal Sunday is created! There are billions of people in this world but we feel like 'we are all alone' only on Sunday! right? End Titles: Adam: Today is Sunday. Eve: Asking or telling? }
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