Pre and After Effects - Diwali
Diwali, festival of light, celebrated as an end of evil as per ancient India mythology, where people are encouraged to overcome and burn the devil within them.
In today's world, a new thing has got attached to this festival. The tradition of playing/bursting fire crackers. What is Fire Cracker ?
Fire Cracker (n) - a monsted that kills human, before during and after its life.
Given the situation of labors in India, where 'safe working' culture is an Alien, the fire cracker manufacturing industry is no less than a man-eater machine. On top of that most of the employees there are children, making them more susceptible to mistakes and accidents in absence of able supervision.
Next when these fire cracker move out of the factory shed, they are literally the bombs traveling on our roads and stored in our neighbourhood (shops), again eats up humans at every other chance.
Now when they are actually used by end customer, they cause enormous amount of Air and Sound pollution. And thats not the end, careless handling and unsupervised used by kids cause innumerable fire incidents.
And on top of everything, all this does not come for free, we pay under our nose to buy this monster to come into our life and cause destruction in myriad ways.
Thing that puzzles me is that without a single plus point coming out of bursting fife crackers, we madly love to indulge in them. Why are we so poor in recognizing what is good and bad for us ? How many more lives come to an end before we develop some common sense ? Where are we missing the point ? What needs to be taught at school to overcome this ignorance ?
I definitely know that there are religious sentiments linked to this, but there are valid and logical justifications to part our ways from the mindless consumption of fire crackers. It just needs a kick-start, and maybe its you and me who have to take the first step.
An ideal Diwali would be full of lights everywhere,with no clouds of smoke, no deafning noise, no fire accidents, loads of good food and sweet around with positive vibes.....aint it good ? or is it too much to ask for ?
I am personally staying away from it, but I haven't still figured out how to take people with me.
In today's world, a new thing has got attached to this festival. The tradition of playing/bursting fire crackers. What is Fire Cracker ?
Fire Cracker (n) - a monsted that kills human, before during and after its life.
Given the situation of labors in India, where 'safe working' culture is an Alien, the fire cracker manufacturing industry is no less than a man-eater machine. On top of that most of the employees there are children, making them more susceptible to mistakes and accidents in absence of able supervision.
Next when these fire cracker move out of the factory shed, they are literally the bombs traveling on our roads and stored in our neighbourhood (shops), again eats up humans at every other chance.
Now when they are actually used by end customer, they cause enormous amount of Air and Sound pollution. And thats not the end, careless handling and unsupervised used by kids cause innumerable fire incidents.
And on top of everything, all this does not come for free, we pay under our nose to buy this monster to come into our life and cause destruction in myriad ways.
Thing that puzzles me is that without a single plus point coming out of bursting fife crackers, we madly love to indulge in them. Why are we so poor in recognizing what is good and bad for us ? How many more lives come to an end before we develop some common sense ? Where are we missing the point ? What needs to be taught at school to overcome this ignorance ?
I definitely know that there are religious sentiments linked to this, but there are valid and logical justifications to part our ways from the mindless consumption of fire crackers. It just needs a kick-start, and maybe its you and me who have to take the first step.
An ideal Diwali would be full of lights everywhere,with no clouds of smoke, no deafning noise, no fire accidents, loads of good food and sweet around with positive vibes.....aint it good ? or is it too much to ask for ?
I am personally staying away from it, but I haven't still figured out how to take people with me.
posted by Ali Asgher Zakir at
9:59 pm
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