Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Some Diwali thoughts (Or issues?)...

The time of crackers are up again. As always very few are worrying about the harm we do to our environment. The noise, the smoke, the celebration time is really troubling our mother earth. The land contamination due to burned gun powder, cracker rolls, waste papers etc etc are again another worries. It is the popular belief that the fireworks that add splendor to Diwali actually burns the evil to ashes. But the Evil is growing strong in the other side by polluting all of our living space. Now a days everyone is talking about being "Green" and it seems the efforts taken to minimize the effects from fire crackers are comparitively very small. I always believed, considering all myths, that Diwali is about spreading light in the darkness of the world. and what we do now is really making a huge dark shade above us and one day it's gonna prevent us from getting light. When i had a small chat with some of my colleagues about avoiding crackers, some intersting questions came up.

1. What's Diwali without crackers?

2. What will be done to protect the employees in the fire cracker buisiness if we are banning the crackers?

3. Is that a big deal in this already polluted world?

4. What if we alone protest?

5. If it's so wrong, then why all others are doing it?

I don't know how many of these questions can be properly answerd by me, but all i know is that i'm gonna avoid all the fire crackers, try to get as many friends to join me in the cracker less celebration and pray for an injury free, accident free and pollution free diwali. Wiah you all a very very happy and safe Diwali...

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