It was during high school that my sister and I somehow started developing a dislike to crackers. When neighbours lit the Lakshmi, bijli, or rockets, it was like we saw currency notes burn in the air.
Showers of light in the form of flower pots and sparklers are good. But sheer waste of precious money for shortlived joy.
Over 15 years on, it's diwali in Bangalore. And such a blessing not to hear those pathetic cracker noises like before. Is it a conscious decision by the city's millions of denizens not to indulge in vulgar display of wealth? Is it green Diwali?
Or just the case of cracker prices sky-rocketing by each passing year? Either ways, it's not just Bangalore's roads, but its millions who benefit, by getting to breathe easier.
Wonder why no one has thought of holding community or colony cracker shows in open playgrounds instead of spilling paper garbage on roads.
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