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Hello readers

Hope you all are doing well.

If you can’t clean your surroundings, then don’t make it dirty.

-Anonymous

I have enjoyed bursting crackers and I believe you would have also, but today I want to ask you and also myself how many of us got the thought and that basic question why do we actually burst fire crackers? I know we asked our parents and relatives they would have told you about the usual Indian rituals and stories and that is why we do what we do on Deepavali or popularly known as Diwali the festival of lights.

So the story begins in China in 1600’s where the Chinese as part of their four great inventions which include the gunpowder, invented fireworks to drive away evil spirits.

The basic composition of a firework is some highly reactive chemicals like Sulphur and magnesium and other chemicals such as barium, calcium strontium, lithium charcoal iron and lampblack, titanium, aluminum, beryllium. Basically all these chemicals are used to emit respective colors and finally gunpowder is the catalyst.

After we have learnt the fundamental mechanism  of the chemical composition of the fireworks, again I will come back to the basic question, do we actually know why we burn fireworks during the festival of lights, we come out conventional answers yes there was a victory of good over evil, the mythology yes I  respect that.

But the point is the whole idea of fireworks did not originate in India, may be this was one of the oldest Chinese ‘dumping’ that happened to India and other countries of the world.

We may feel a little apprehensive when I quote the term ‘Dumping’ but actually as a matter of fact it is true because I could not find any evidence of any scripture that says to burn a capsule of paper filled with gunpowder and an oxidizer and enjoy the noise from the explosion.

Let’s think what is the point of burning currency for an exchange  of colorful displays accompanied with cancer causing smoke!

I got my realization 11 years ago and I stopped bursting any type of fireworks! But I am unhappy people still enjoy creating noise and air pollution and enjoy it, without thinking.

If we actually are cultural and say yes we are proud to be whatever religion we are following we should show the purity in follow it, according to Hindu Dharma I quote “a Hindu should not do anything that creates a rift or an imbalance in the five forces of nature” which is believed to be the source of this energy, life, spirit there are various names for it.

I feel we should start questioning about the culture or rituals we do, and stop feeling emotional about it or not asking the same for the sake of fear.

Do you know the only simple reason I am asking you to ask this question, it is  simple when you create pollution of any sort, it not only a nonsense for you in some cases it may not be as well! But it is unnecessary trouble for the whole environment and it is definitely will impact the other beings which live around you who are not as complex beings as us and they do not enjoy these amusing effects as we do!  They just need some food to eat and clean air to breath and we as the so called super intelligent species have reached such a stage of arrogance that we deny that as well to these animals, plants and birds! For that matter the entire phyla! What a disaster man has created. In cities the plight of star animals during these types of celebrations is such a pity.

People were advised not come out during Diwali in Delhi! And in today’s newspaper I read the pollution level in Delhi has reached the penultimate point! Can we atleast realize now?

Hats off to you Mr. James Cameron you saw that coming many years ago where machines rule humans and almost nothing is left on this earth, you made great movies the famous “Terminator series”, well I will say that judgement day what he has described will become the reality and it would be not as joyful as how we enjoyed when we had watched the robot driving the Harley Davidson and going boom boom with the shotguns!

Start thinking about what you are doing, think environment first because if you delete this word there is no further discussion about your cultures and religions, you could be walking in an oxygen capsule and your life will end like an astronaut who in outer space perishes if his spacesuit develops even a scar.

Atleast next Diwali let us celebrate it silently and show some courtesy of Mother Nature!

For all the people who suddenly become logical and say “ so what about the huge volumes  of industrial gases that we are thrown out which is poisonous to the environment , I agree with them, but that doesn’t mean you add up to that poisonous decoction and pump the air with more poisonous gases!

When you do something just ask one question ‘Why’?

Thanks for your time, have a great week ahead.