No one can deny that the festival of lights—Diwali has seen many changes in the recent past with a few members of society strongly advocating the use of crackers with deafening sounds while emitting a lot of pollution. This is something which the people should reconsider because celebrating Diwali with crackers leaving trails of pollution is in no way justified. After all it is a festival and the crackers used should be pollution free and give out dazzling lights and sounds which are soft to ears.
Those using bombs of high decibel sounds and polluting the atmosphere should revisit their decision especially when it is proved that air pollution is behind many diseases prevalent in the society. There are people on social media batting for using crackers extensively without any restraint. They should understand that Diwali was traditionally celebrated by cleaning and decorating the houses and other premises, by lighting the earthen lamps, and sharing sweets and sweet moments. The practice of bursting the crackers started later with people spending huge amounts to buy the crackers.
Slowly, the bursting of loud bombs, Phooljadis and Anars became synonymous with the festival. All this while, no one realised the huge amount of noise and air pollution being caused by the bursting of crackers that leads to dark skies full of smoke instead of lighting it, and therefore the practice should be contained. The essence of Diwali is lighting lamps so why not go back to the basics and light it up besides cleaning the houses using conventional methods to ensure that Diwali proved out to be the best festival across the country. Decoration is also an important activity connected with Diwali and therefore people should be engaged in such constructive activities rather than emanating pollution and spoiling the environment further as already things are at a threshold level. The use of green crackers is a good option which gives out no pollution although the rates are considerably on the higher side.
All said and done, celebrating pollution free Diwali is not a bad idea. With high pollution crackers the festival of lights at some point of time becomes tragic with ill patients facing wrath of chemicals burning in large numbers therefore there is no comparison to green crackers and sweets, cleanliness and decorated houses and people meeting one another with happy and healthy faces.
