Do They Celebrate Halloween In India?

[Caran]

I rang Talk Talk today, I got Eve with an Indian accent. She wished me a happy Halloween, I told her I do not do Halloween. She replied oh we do we are in the middle of a huge Halloween party at the moment!!
I didn't know they celebrated it in India.

[marval]

Neither did I Caran, it's a new one on me.

[BlackadderV]

They don't, but it is part of the Indian call centre ethos to submerge themselves in British 'culture', which is why they are forced to watch Eastenders!

[jno]

many do

http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/food-wine/india-gets-its-spook-on-to-celebrate-halloween/

Remember, nobody celebrated it here 20 years ago either.

[BlackadderV]

Oh, yes they did, jno, albeit in a different manner. I remember my father carving me a turnip lantern in 1958.

[Caran]

jno that has surprised me.

[jno]

I never saw a trick or treater till the 90s, Blackadder.

In fact I don't see them now as I have the lights off and am hiding behind the sofa.

[Captain2]

I'm with BlackadderV - I can remember 'Trick or Treat' in the late 50s early 60s, when we were allowed out 'til all hours without supervision.

[jno]

a lot of it is quite modern, according to this

http://www.historyextra.com/feature/weird-and-wonderful/10-things-you-didn%E2%80%99t-know-about-history-and-mystery-halloween

Interesting.

[vakayu]

I too went out "guising" in the mid to late 50's,it has been on the go for a long time but is now very Americanised,and includes more adults than it used to years ago.

[jno]

ah well, I never saw any but being around London you don't get these old country traditions.

[BlackadderV]

Agatha Christie wrote a mystery novel call 'Hallowe'en Party', published in 1969, so the custom must have been well established then.

[B00]

Reminds me of when I was in Tesco last week, i was buying a few toys in a sale to put away for Christmas and the Asian girl who scanned em at the till asked if they were indeed christmas presents. The convo went something like this...

me: yes they are ,getting them while they're cheap.
Her: yeah I got some too, to put away
me: Oh, do you do Christmas then?
her: well no, but we're getting a tree, doing presents for the kids, and having turkey
me (laughing) but you don't do Christmas

We both laughed our heads off :-)