Every fortnight, a new Comic Strip is sent to the members of the Arbit Choudhury Yahoo Group.We also try and make the e-mail (which goes along) informative and interesting, while also updating fans with the latest milestones achieved by the venture.
This fortnight we were announcing about Arbit Choudhury Comics hitting the 75th Comic Strip mark. So, one of us suggested using the term 'Diamond Jubilee' for the same. Somehow, I remembered that 75 is associated with Platinum and not Diamond - so I went to Google/ Wikipedia and did some research only to discover the confusing world of 'Jubilees'.
I first discovered that Diamond Jubilee is associated with 60 years by the British standards. So, I checked if using 'Platinum' would be correct to discover further that 'Platinum Jubilee' is associated with 70 years by British usage and with 75 years by South Asian (Read: Indian) usage. However to add to the twist on Jubilees, in the US "Diamond Jubilee" is celebrated at 75 years.
So the conclusion is that the whole world agrees on durations of the Silver Jubilee (25 years) and Golden Jubilee (50 years). Thereafter the British have both a Diamond Jubilee and a Platinum Jubilee, the American's have only a Diamond Jubilee while we, Indians / South Asians, have only a Platinum Jubilee.
Footnote:
The term 'Jubilee' denotes 'anniversary' and etymologically derives from biblical usage where it refers to year of celebration and forgiveness originally held every 50 years. So a Jubilee refers specifically to completion of a given number of years (25/50/70/75/60). And so it would have been erroneous on our part to use the term to describe completion of a 'number of comics released'.
This fortnight we were announcing about Arbit Choudhury Comics hitting the 75th Comic Strip mark. So, one of us suggested using the term 'Diamond Jubilee' for the same. Somehow, I remembered that 75 is associated with Platinum and not Diamond - so I went to Google/ Wikipedia and did some research only to discover the confusing world of 'Jubilees'.
I first discovered that Diamond Jubilee is associated with 60 years by the British standards. So, I checked if using 'Platinum' would be correct to discover further that 'Platinum Jubilee' is associated with 70 years by British usage and with 75 years by South Asian (Read: Indian) usage. However to add to the twist on Jubilees, in the US "Diamond Jubilee" is celebrated at 75 years.
So the conclusion is that the whole world agrees on durations of the Silver Jubilee (25 years) and Golden Jubilee (50 years). Thereafter the British have both a Diamond Jubilee and a Platinum Jubilee, the American's have only a Diamond Jubilee while we, Indians / South Asians, have only a Platinum Jubilee.
Footnote:
The term 'Jubilee' denotes 'anniversary' and etymologically derives from biblical usage where it refers to year of celebration and forgiveness originally held every 50 years. So a Jubilee refers specifically to completion of a given number of years (25/50/70/75/60). And so it would have been erroneous on our part to use the term to describe completion of a 'number of comics released'.
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