Yoohooo …. !
Back on air ?!! ……. Not exactly !
But, what better occasion to write ,than a diwali ?!
Well .. India doesn’t celebrate its diwali on any one day. It happens throughout the year, in different selected parts of the country. Nothing to rejoice when a few 100 lives are lost annually. It is when this country meekly surrenders some of its citizens to groups that massacre innocent civilians. 90% of the crackers in india are produced in sivakasi, the other 10% must be in some dingy, stinkpot of a place,where they are wrapped in nuts and bolts. Why nuts and bolts ?!! Thats because if the blasts don’t get you, the metal pieces will !

Er …. Sorry Guys !! Wat a time to be talkin abt such stuff ,pardon me.
Now let me see … Diwali …. its that one day in a year, when i thrill to wake up early and wake up the rest of the ‘hood.

This time it seemed there was lesser noise preceding diwali !
Were people waking upto the environmental havoc it did, or was it the Inflation effect !?
But i was happy watching my neighbour from the distance, looking around desperately, bcos
this time there was no me to compete with.
We were like the cowboys u saw in the wild west movies,our guns ready and drawn . [Yeah.The agarbathis were our guns!]
No words were spoken, but for a “Happy Diwali” that sounded more like “Bring it On!” than any bonhomie.
The usual rivalry – over who bursted the most crackers, or who’s made more noise [?] was missing this time .[ Considering it was the one time me & my sis joined forces, fr this strange annual event ! ]

Because this year I was not bursting crackers. Did that mean i wasn’t celebrating ?!
Absolutely not.
It is what they call a cracker-free diwali !
It could also mean more talk less noise,less pollution, more sweets, more tv, lesser nausea and a clean u.
what with so many i know deciding against crackers this diwali !
Suddenly it seemed not wishing to burst crackers was ultracool !
It gave u a chance to prove that u do read the news, and an excuse to talk about global warming and other such seemingly complicated stuff, with a few jargons thrown in for effect
Ok, i’m not completely serious, the above 2 lines were meant fr people who blink in slo-mo at u,
or rub their eyes in disbeleif over what they just heard, when u go “Crackers ?! I gave up a long time ago ! “.
Imagine that with a halo to boot !

Its time we gave pollution,environmental degradation and other such stuff the spotlight they deserve.
So what can ‘U’ not bursting crackers mean to the global scenario ?
[Here i go on one of those preachy stuffs again !]

Its fine if u don’t actively campaign for such things, but the least u cud possibly do is to not give in to the temptation of pollution .
The world cud do with one cracker less. Maybe just ‘one’ for ol’times sake !

This diwali the din wasn’t from the road, but from the parking lot,When all the cars began singing in unison.
From when was the sound of crackers so stimulating for anti-theft alarms ?!

Anyways folks, have a Happy & Safe[crackerless] Diwali !

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