La tomatina in Bangalore
Did you ever hear about La tomatina? It is the famous festival celebrated in Spain, where you all throw tomatoes on each other.. It has now come to Bangalore and is held this Sunday, for the first time ever. There is an event on Facebook, and more than 54 000 people have said they are coming! The event is providing tomatoes, and DJ´s will also be there to play. It will be held in a huge area called Palace grounds, and there are entry fees for everyone who wants to participate.
So, the thing is that so many people are also against this festival, because in India there are so many people that can not even afford to buy tomatoes for eating, and now so many people just want to throw it away, when it instead could have been used for feeding a lot of people. The one good thing is that the event is claiming that some of the profit will go to NGO´s. But it is still a waste of a lot of food.
But I am sure that this festival will be a lot of fun. It is like the Indian festival Holi, where you throw colours at each other, but this time it is tomatoes. I will not attend this event. Mainly because I am working, but also because I dont see the point in celebrating a Spanish festival here in India. Why has it become so huge and popular here? Is it because of the hindi movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara? In that movie the are in Spain, celebrating the festival..
Why dont the Bollywood industrie make a movie in Sweden during Midsummer, maybe my festival would become so popular here in India that everyone wants to celebrate that one too!?
