community specially earmarks festival days when the daily routine is set aside to give way to celebrations marking some happy episode or occurrence having extraordinary significance, Thus Holi festival for the Hindus, Eid for the Muslims and the Christmas for the Christians are some popular festivals. The entire communities take a break from the daily routine and immerse themselves in the joyous activities.
Relations, friends and acquaintances exchange greetings and gifts, prepare specialfood and engage in merry making. Children outdo the adults in the sheer enthusiasm they bring to their merry making activities. They always look forward to festivals and the revelries associated with them.
Labor or work has been called Adam's curse, which was meted out to him for disobeying God. Man has generally seen enjoyment in detachment from or disjunction with work. Considering the hard and back breaking labor man had to perform to make both ends meet, he was perhaps justified in opposing pleasure to work. For quite a few in the Third World work involved in earning a livelihood is still exacting and tiring. But for a fairly large numbers now, work need not be drudgery. It can be a voluntary participation in socially useful and humanly satisfying work. Why should there be drudgery in teaching the young ones whose wonder and curiosity is stimulating and satisfying to the teacher?
Weaving of a beautiful shawl or making of a cute handicraft gives the worker joy and satisfaction. There are few life- enhancing activities that do not occasion delight. Primitive man worked hard in his work group and cultivated foodgrains and collected his season's requirement. Thereafter, he spent all the time available to him insocial gatherings and festivities till the onset of next working season. Unlike the cultivator, the hunter's life could become a daily festival if he caught game regularly. Hunting, cultivation and food gathering activities were group and collective activities and were interspersed with and punctuated by feasting and revelries. Even in the modern era, people engaged in some occupations find frequent occasions to celebrate. Sportsmen playing matches, singers releasing their albums celebrate the completion
