As I have stated in my earlier post about Christmas that I will post article about those places from India where Christmas is celebrated to full of its extent.

Mumbai!!! readers must be thinking why do I have chosen this City first? There are many reasons but the biggest reason is how this city still showing its liveliness after a major terrorist attack on Taj and Oberoi Hotel on 26th November Evening. Unforgettable Night for Mumbaikar!!!

The economic engine of the country has turned Christmas into an extravaganza of retail therapy. Beginning with Dassehra and Diwali, the shopping season is on and continues until the last bells of the New Year have ended. The Akbarally’s department store has always had a Santa Claus (a gimmick now adapted by most stores) and it is the presence of the jolly old saint in the red suit—which he was given by Coca-Cola who dressed him up to suit their colours in the 1920s—that probably gives Christmas so much of its merriment. Who can resist getting a gift? Who can resist the joy of giving a gift and watching a loved one’s face light up?

Alfred D’Souza’s Stop Gaps, a famous carol singing group, gives a festive performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Nariman Point. But the true connoisseur makes his or her way to the Afghan Church or the St Thomas’ Cathedral where Coomi Wadia’s world class Paranjoti Choir, that often tours Europe sing carols from all over the world. The choir enters the darkened church bearing diyas and singing some of the old faithfuls such as Silent Night, Holy Night.

On Christmas Eve, it might be a good idea to make your way to the Wodehouse Cathedral in Colaba, at the south end of the city. Here the faithful will begin to gather around 9:30 pm for the singing of carols and the midnight mass that follows. As most of us know Mumbai is divided on north-south fault-lines, and if you are unwilling to cross the ‘line of control’ marked by the Mahim Creek, then it is to Mount Carmel you must go. This small modern church in Bandra, the queen of the suburbs, has a brilliant choir that stops traffic outside.

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