Would have been nice to have this in India too.

Today morning, I got this email from my colleague in Japan.

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Sub : Japanese spring holiday season

Biju-san,

Japanese spring holiday season begin. Our office is closed from today to May 11.
I will check the email occasionally.

Regards,
Hiroshi.
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That's a long closure of 11 days. 11 days of no work, no emails, no deadlines etc.
Time to spend with family and loved ones. Time to relax and recharge your batteries.

All I could do was envy him. And wonder why we do not have something on these lines
in India. The Europeans (and most American organisations too) have the long year-end
vacation of around 10 days that starts just before Christmas and ends with the New Year.

In India, you have to fall in either of 2 categories to get a long vacation. Actually a much
longer vacation than even what is mentioned above. You need to be either a student or
a teacher in a school/college to be able to enjoy an almost 2-month vacation every year.
One of the things I envy my 2 sisters and brother-in-law for, as the 3 of them are teachers.

It would actually be nice to have this kind of closed vacation for organisations too. Maybe
the Indian companies could align their holidays with those of the countries that they do
business with or where they have their headquarters. In my case, we are an American
company and I guess it would make sense to have our annual closure around the same
time that they have theirs - Christmas to New Year.

Oh, yeah. If wishes were horses, ......