It's ho! ho! Home for Christmas
Published in My Kolkata https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/lifestyle/staying-home-for-christmas/cid/2073526 After decades of being out and about at Christmas, the author takes a break from the nightlife and finds himself at home on Christmas, with only memories for company in a lighter vein and hopefully not in vain. That famous set of Christmas songs have been on loop for nearly a month now. I say Christmas songs with impunity despite the season being rebranded “The Holiday Season” in the US of A and “Good Governance Day” back home. For one thing, in our country we don’t have a season for holidays - we have a couple of planned holidays every month and a few more unplanned days scattered here and there throughout the months. In fact, we don’t even use the term ‘holiday’ when we go out of town, we say ‘tour’ for some reason. I guess that’s why we are disdainfully known as ‘local tourists’ wherever we make a nuisance of ourselves. And Good Governance, even for a day, is a gre...