Mridula Sinha, a native of Bihar, now the Hon'ble Governor of Goa, has taken pains in writing a very good article on Chchutt, carried by Hindustan daily dt.29 Oct.

The one and the only relevance that interests a prudent reader in Mridula Sinha's write up on Chchutt , is that its votaries , spread far flung, are of two kinds.

One is that which solemnly observe and celebrate, as and where resident, without becoming a load on the already fractured system of rail-travel. 

The other is that which is wholly unaware and non-cognisant of the fall out of their reverence on the public transport systems. 

Festivals and marriage ceremonies have now begun to spill over public thoroughfares. That makes it a growing menace which, if touched upon, would hurt sentiments. 

Sentiment is opposed to secularism. Secularism refuses to accommodate any thing non-material. A secular state promises non-interference with beliefs. That implies that the state would not act in repression that would hurt sentiments. This is an oblique and skewed concept. Sentiments are not stuff of a kind that should loiter about on non-specified public places or thoroughfares. Specified places may be defined and categorised. Places of worship, Chchutt Ghats, licensed routes, etc., are good examples, which must be deemed as the confined areas for festive use. But these areas hardly limit festive over-enthusiasm, that manifest in trains, roads, etc., oblivious of the evil it continues to breed with geometrical progression, so to say.