1. Tradition is more easily destroyed than understood. While buying gold & silver on #Dhanteras might not have been the original tradition, it is so for a while now and it has resulted in Indian women individually possessing a sizable amount of gold reserves in the world.
2. This tradition alone has helped India to weather global economic recessions better than other cultures and nations. Even a poor woman with barely a roof over her head in India will often fish out some ornament for an emergency.
3. But tradition is a fragile thing. The secular progressives have been campaigning that women should buy iron instead of gold on Dhanteras. This is not the place to go into the sheer ridiculousness of the suggestion, but such campaigns do have an effect.
4. And if a sizable majority of women decide to do away with their gold reserves handed to them by their parents and accumulated over generations, all of this security and cushion against economic recessions will disappear in just one generation.
5. For the secular youth will trade all this tradition in gold for a 'memorable trip to Bali' resulting in hardly more than a collection of horrible selfies. Such is the play of consciousness. A wrong idea can destroy a tradition in a generation. Make sure that doesn't happen.
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