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Americans have a strange festival called Halloween, which is celebrated on 31st October every year

Americans have a strange festival called Halloween, which is celebrated on 31st October every year.

Americans have a strange festival called Halloween, which is celebrated on 31st October every year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

A couple of years back I was in Fremont, California. 

On 31st October I went for a walk in the evening, and saw houses with ghosts, vampires, skeletons, witches, spidernets, pumpkins with lights inside, and other kinds of weird, spooky, eerie, bizarre and wacky things.

https://indicanews.com/halloween-as-seen-by-an-indian

Children come to your house on Halloween day and say “ trick or treat “, which means you have to give them some sweets, candy, cake etc, or they will play some nasty trick on you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating

It is a system of extortion, and no wonder the Mafia has sprouted in America. Halloween is excellent childhood training !

This year Halloween in America and Diwali in India fell on the same day i.e. 31st October. 

I was in India this 31st October, so I did not get a dose of Halloween, but I got a dose of Diwali. The whole night there were exploding crackers ( despite a Supreme Court order against bursting crackers ) and I could hardly get any sleep. I would prefer Halloween over Diwali, because at least it does not disturb one’s sleep !

Justice Markandey Katju

Markandey Katju, born on September 20, 1946, in lucknow is a former Indian Supreme Court judge and chaired the Press Council of India from 2011 to 2014. He started at the Allahabad High Court in 1970, became Chief Justice of the Madras and Delhi High Courts, and joined the Supreme Court in 2006. He founded the Indian Reunification Association to advocate for the secular reunification of Pakistan and Bangladesh with India.

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