Halloween In India?

 halloween in india? 

Halloween is a special time of the year to remember the dead. It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain; that such festivals may have had pagan roots; and that Samhain itself was Christianized as Halloween by the early Church.

Halloween activities include trick-or-treating , attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks , visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, as well as watching horror films. church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular, although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration. 

 yet we children or teens, ourselves feel attracted to the more scary part of Halloween. And I know we have been so eager to celebrate Halloween ever since we were exposed to the American culture. A very few of us Indians have started to celebrate Halloween by throwing parties ,dressing up and even few schools in India have set up carnivals dedicated for this ocassions. 

But yet the halloween spirit in India is low. We might have heard of parents ask or say we have plenty of festivals in India to celebrate, then why fuss over halloween??..That's true but we all know that none of the desi festivals in India allows us to dress up scary and go trick or treat.

As I teen myself, the only Indian festival I love is Holi but much to my dismay Holi isn't celebrated in south Indian.

The only thing I am asking is why can't  India have just one day dedicated to Halloween ?

We don't really need a holiday on that special day, we can have regular classes yet dress up scary instead of boring everyday uniform. I would give anything to wake up on 31st October morning , dress up scary for the day and walk into my class filled with spine chilling decorations and spooky classmates.