Rajesh Kumar Behera, Kendrapara, Orissa
Though the Generation-X has been adopting new methods like SMS and e-cards in order to greet their near and dear ones to celebrate the Christmas and New Year wishes ,but the message of e-cards and SMSes are not heart touching ones like the greeting card does, that’s why people are still sticking with the tradition way of expressing their personal message through paper greetings card. As a result , the greetings card business has been getting a good response this year as the stall owners are busy in selling cards in Kendrapara and doing a good profit .
Customers are seen standing in front of greeting’s card stalls to purchase the attractive paper greetings card from stall.
Bholi, a Greetings card vendor of Farzan Chowk, though the Generation –X has been adopting fast changing society , but the traditional method of conveying personal feelings with the medium of greetings card still manage to win the hearts of older generation along with the generation next . The Greetings card ,which is considered as out dated and old fashioned medium of expressing heart felt personal messages packed with emotion and feelings in the society , has still managed to hold the sender’s love and care for the special one ,to whom the card is posted, by expressing their personal feelings to their special ones.
According to Sruti sneha Das, the SMSes and e-cards is like message without feelings. On the other hand , you can get the care and love for a person which is conveyed by sender in the paper greetings card,which can be stored for years .
To express the feelings of your heart ,it needs words and you can get words packed with feelings in a greetings card than SMSes and e-card. That’s why we are sticking to the greetings card than SMSes , stated most of the college girls .
Another thing is that the paper greetings card cannot be forwarded to another person ,but in the case of SMSes and E-cards one can forwarded to others .
“In the ongoing greetings card season, the greetings card ranges from Rs 1 to Rs150 get a place in my stall. I have sold varieties of cards starting from God and goddess to film stars . most of the customers are purchasing love cards , eco-friendly cards and musical cards to express their New year wishes along with messages of Merry Christmas “, said,Chitta Sethy, a greetings card stall owner near kendrapara college Chowk.
Some gift houses of the township areas have also been doing a good business in the Kendrapara township areas since last one week .To purchase the greetings card and gift items along with red rose to celebrate the coming New year and Merry Christmas with their special buddies ,most of the college goers and youth masses are paying a visit to the gift houses .
(2) miscreants hurled bombs at a shop
At least four motorbike borne miscreants ,who were in two motorbikes, on Thursday allegedly hurled three bombs at the Korua bazar-based Panda Home Appliances under Patkura police station. Later , the unidentified hooligans fled from the spot by terrorizing the locals and threatening the owner of the shop to provide them their earlier demanded ransom amount else the anti socials threatened the owner of the shop to face dire consequences in the coming days, informed Patkura police sources .
Some furniture were damaged but nobody sustained any hurt in the bomb hurling incident.
Police is conducting raid in different hide outs to nab the miscreants but no arrest has been made so far as police are still clueless to identify the miscreants .
This is not the first case under Patkura police station that miscreants allegedly hurled bombs after the owner denied to fulfill the demands of the anti socials .If sources are to be believed about a dozen of bomb hurling cases have been reported in the Patkura police station in last one year ,but police have failed to nab the accuseds in most of the cases .
Due to the callous attitude and inefficiency of the Patkura police to nab the accuseds and to control their criminal activities , such crime is on the rising side here at Patkura area , the native of Energy minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak,locals alleged.
