Prose 26 : Sweetness In Tradition
Sweetness In Tradition - T ABRAHAM
Tradition is something that is an age old practice of a particular nation or region. It can be attributed either to a small group or a larger crowd. Traditions are sweet and colourful when one finds where one 'belongs to' or 'fits into'. 'Tradition' as a term is usually attributed to the clothing, food and to many more things. When we talk about the various traditions available and practiced in India it merely confuses a foreigner as it is seen in the novel titled 'A Passage to India' written by E.M. Forster which can cause a lot of trouble to the natives and the foreign entity as well. But nowadays there is a coexistence or a crisscross existing between various cultures and traditions and there are less problems caused. Here, we are going to ponder upon the diversity in traditions using 'sweets' and 'sweetness' as the media to ponder upon this.
When we move either from the north or south or from the west to east we see many similarities and diversity in the nature and everything present in each place as we progress. The similarities are due to the inter-mingling taking place between people. There is a common misconception regarding the unity in diversity at times. It is not necessary for one tradition to get mixed up with the other tradition to prove the peaceful existence between people living in a particular area, but accepting it is something which can be described as, both exists at the same place but each tradition should not interfere and intervene in the issues of one another unless one's freedom is getting disturbed by the other.
Any tradition in it's purest form is something that is rare to find nowadays but there still exists some pure communities following their traditions. When we take the traditional sweets from all the regions of India we can see that all are made with the help of diverse ingredients available in the land of diverse traditions and each looks externally very different. Each sweet is considered as a 'sweet' because it imparts the taste of sweetness to us. Even though each looks very different from each other they are sweet and to be more clear they are traditional sweets made with different traditional identity with the regional elements present inside them to bring out the sweetness.
Hence, even though these sweets are from different origins, everyone of us get a chance to have a bite of this sweetness. These sweets are kept in one place at a time and we can see that they are colourful and beautiful of their own nature. So, like these sweets all of us are from different traditions and each one of us, when we are following our tradition in it's purest we can see a colourful nation filled with colourful traditions being present in this planet earth with peace and harmony present inside all of them.
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