Sleepy Sunday --- The Laziness

Half a century after Independence, it might still be the case that we Indians have to thank the English for throwing certain odds and ends our way. Consider Sunday, for example, an official holiday throughout India. We are hardly, if ever, taught in school that it was the Governor General Lord Wellesley (1760 - 1842 AD) who made Sunday an official weekly holiday in India. I really do not know what the natives did on 'Sundays' before Wellesley's order : I am very curious to find out more on this matter. In any case, I suppose that without Lord Wellesley's blessing our famed Oriental laziness would have never been exposed to the Western eye. Our Indian Sundays are, therefore, a mixed blessing : they come down to us from a bloody past, a past that lazily slumbers in our villages, towns, and cities bursting at the seams in their attempts to rush headlong into the future.