Thud on, no Thanksgiving!

 What is a 'thud'? It is a loud noise. As a verb, it means, moreover, to make a huge noise as if a huge object has fallen. Well, this Thanksgiving Thursday, 'thud, thud' went the bullets, right next to the White House. For all we know, or do not know, two guards were mortally wounded. With such thuds on, no Thanksgiving, right? 

With the Trump-Mamdani truce, all seemed well. Now, however, Trump has seen red. War is already declared! In no uncertain terms! Terror attack, is how the incident is described. The 9/11 wounds must yet again be pried open. The blame game has begun, too! The immigrant issue has yet again emerged on the American agenda!

Sad that the Thanksgiving Thursday should be thus vitiated. The turkey, too, may not get the traditional pardon this year, given the President's mood. Sad that such an incident should happen on a day which the greatest President of America, Abraham  Lincoln, marked as a day to celebrate togetherness so that the divisions caused by the Civil War could be wiped out n clean. 

As it is, the DEI debates would have dimmed the sheen of the day, what with the Native Americans doubting the tradition. Actually, like most festivals across the world, this day, too, originally was a harvest celebration. The Pilgrims in the Plymouth Colony (Yes, America, too, was once a British colony!)  were helped by the local natives in garnering a huge harvest. Hence the Founding Fathers constitutionally adopted this national holiday. 

As inclusivity is thus being not merely theoretically debated, but is now down with a thud, this year, 'Black Friday' would literally be dark!

 Pratima@ Why terrorism? No, it cannot be poverty, lack of education type of traditional causes because the Delhi blast has clinically (in all senses of this term!) proved that white collar terrorism is hugely rampant! Which 'Operation' can cure it? That is the question!

 Quote of the day:                                                      "The fanatic," feels Elie Wiesel, who survived the Holocaust, "has no questions, only answers!" 

Word(s) of the day:                                                     Let us understand three apparently  similar words. 'emigrate' means 'to leave one's motherland to permanently settle in a foreign country'. 'immigrate' is 'to reach a foreign country to try and live there forever'. 'migrate' is 'to move to a new area in search of work or better living conditions.' 

Indians emigrate from India and try to immigrate to the West, especially the U.S.A. In India itself, there is a huge internal migration, from the erstwhile 'Bimaru' states to Maharashtra which has its own colossal intake of internal migrants, from Khandesh, Vidarbha and  Marathwada to Mumbai and Pune, for instance.