When it comes to festivals, two things we indians do; One being loud music and second being bursting fire crackers on public places. Both of these happens on public places and hence can be considered as public nuisance, but why no stopping to it, even when we all are educated and aware of the side effects?
Fire crackers on diwali is a scary dream for animals too. People often find it funny to hurt an animal by tying crackers to its tail or some thing worse. Irrespective of the warnings, alerts, call for humanity and all social practices, we humans forget the fact that we are celebrating, not fighting a war. 10 housing societies in a line means 10*zillion watts of nonsense music till late night which keeps the old people, unwell people, heart patients, babies and more people awake. Why are we not celebrating in a sound proof room?
My suggestion: You like music, you love society, you love social gathering with music and dance? Do a bit, next time when a new Housing complex is built, please make a compulsory inclusion of a sound proof conference hall/auditorium for celebrations like this.
Crackers are made of chemicals and too much of them causes the air polluted. If smoking is injurious to health, then crackers are injurions multiplied by zillion.Crackers can cause burns if not bursted properly. Why we need a noisy celebration, why not a more cheerful one by feeding the poor and greedy, spending more on family and keep them happy, buy something new useful for your family and if still you have money to spend, take your family for a vacation. Why this Crackers? Most of us love crackers, i stopped using them at a point when i felt i need to do something to show an example. People make fun of me for not bursting crackers, but i feel better now. I am part of a better cause, i am doing by bit. Whether it is going to be a success or failure, that is immaterial. The time has come to wish you all A Happy and Joyous(Safe) Diwali with less crackers(no crackers).
May be i sound weird, but there will be a day when you will feel the same thing which i feel now.
Themetalsaint 