Today is May 1 and it is a holiday again after working for two days. The fortnight from April 20 to May 5 is something unique and adorable for me and similar employees of the organisations, which follow a five days week and which have also declared holidays on Wednesday,April 24 for Mahaveer Jayanthi and again on the next Wednesday, May 1. It is a rare coincidence, I think,two consecutive Wednesdays happen to be holidays.Holidays declared on Wednesday has the great advantage of the working days, being equally distributed, two days before and after that Wednesday.This time, by virtue of two consecutive Wednesdays being holidays, from April 20, onwards, every third day is a holiday till May 5, making us happy and free to complete our personal works and of course to relax.May Day is fixed on May 1 but Mahaveer Jayanthi, I think is declared on or before the Full Moon Day, following the lunar calendar.This type of intermittent holidays may not be suitable for planning an outing of 3 or 4 days as done during the extended weekends.Still the Moon Goddess and Mahaveerji deserve a big thanks from us.
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