Of processions

Some of the processions are highly colourlul. Political procession is one of them. Flags and banners are parts of most of the processions. When a procession passes along a road, the vehicular traffic comes to a standstill, slogans are repeated and if it is a protest march, angry fists are displayed by the marchers. Political processions tend to be violent leading to destruction of private and public properties and involving police actions. A procession, of whatever kind it may be, arouses much interest among crowds of onlookers. Sometimes rooftops and balconies of houses on both sides of road along which a procession passes are filled with such onlookers. The men and women forming a procession lose their individual identify. The procession itself assumes a character of its own. The individual ego then is overpowered by the social ego. Processions thus symbolise the gregarious nature of man.