Post-Diwali Dhamaka

After a long wait, Diwali comes. People celebrate in their own ways. Apart from the Lakshmi Puja, and the bursting of crackers, people celebrate the day for with various other purposes as well.  Some take it as a festival to rejoice and restart a new year, some take it as a nice chance to give their homes a fresh look, some take it as a chance to re-establish long lost contacts and some just think it’s a nice day off from the busy schedule of their routine lives.

The day comes and passes by. People celebrate, rejuvenate and enjoy. Hawans and Pujas take place in every home and the evenings are dedicated to the most beloved part of the festival of lights: Burning crackers. Probably that is the most beloved part for every child.

Post Diwali day, the Pollution Control Board is not far behind in establishing the air pollution levels of the previous night at different locations in the city. Although the estimates seem to be going down with each passing day, but are the levels actually decreasing? With the rise of the number of asthma and other heart and lungs related disease patients, is the slight dip in the pollution level of any significance?

The mess that is created on the roads where the crackers are burnt is another site to observe! The Municipal Corporation must be hiring more employees for this special “cleanliness drive” day!

But whatever might be said, there are not the only negative side of things that one should look at. Are we, here in Delhi, not observing a dip in the number of mosquitoes after Diwali? May be there actually will be a huge dip in the number of dengue cases now post-diwali!

This is one festival that has been celebrated in the country since time immemorial in exactly the same way as it is done today. This year the festival has now passed and our wait for this time of next year seems to be long. But surely the wait is worth it.

And with this we, here at Creative Call, come to an end of our Diwali-special fortnight. We hope you had an awesome time in going through the complete details of everything related to Diwali that our young budding creative writers have blogged about here.

Awaiting your views and comments. Have a nice time.