Shyam Sudan
When we initiate the movement of environment friendly or green Deepawali, usually religious sentiments raises in the minds of diwali lover’s. We can celebrate this festival without hurting the religious sentiments of Diwali worshippers by adopting various precautions which are mandatory for everyone irrespective of its religion.
Every year we celebrate Deepawali with great enthusiasm and fervour across the entire nation and even abroad in many countries. We usually spend a huge amount of money on this festival on crackers and other fireworks. No doubt it gives economic boost to our cracker industry and millions of workers engaged in these industries. But at the other side we create lot of air and noise pollution in our cities and even in villages. Even many people especially children lost their body parts every year due to their carelessness and ignorance on this day celebration event. Deepawali which is popularly known as festival of lights is now turning into a festival of accidents, tragic incidents, pollution and disputes .We are already facing the crisis of global warming across the entire globe .But on the other side we are deliberately promoting such activities in our life which creates more trouble for us. Our crackers are full with high intensity explosives nowadays. We generally take risk while using such materials. Our children are playing with these explosives during the celebration of Deepawali. It is our duty to guide our children, how to use these explosives safely .we can teach them how to celebrate the environment friendly Diwali with happiness. Instead of wasting money on highly explosive crackers we can give priority to Rangoli designing, lightening of earthen Diyas, candles , safe crackers, artificial lights and other decoration works. High intensity explosives are not only harmful for its users but also create trouble for old age people, patient and small children. As we know in our neighborhood many people have cardiac problem, many have irritability towards high frequency sounds .When we explode High intensity explosives suddenly such kind of people feel uncomforted and irritation. Even the other creatures i.e animals feels uncomforted , uneasiness and unexpected shock .While performing our celebration we should keep in mind the selection of place and kind of crackers. The Air quality index of many big cities changed abruptly due to explosion of such fireworks and returned to its original point after many days of gap .
At religious point of view we know that Deepawali is the time of celebration we welcome our lord and Goddess Lakshmi in our homes. We must keep in our mind that our God and goddesses are not happy with our high sound producing explosive and pollution. They are happy with our devotion, faith and purity of hearts. Instead of focusing on these explosives and other wrong actions on such a pious day we should give priority to cleanliness, peace and happiness. However there is no religious censorship on such kind of celebration. But being a civilized person it is the duty of every one to think over such issues .All those activities and celebration (of every religion)which creates trouble for others and for our environment must be visualised from civilized point of view. Our religion, caste and culture may be different but we belong to the same planet. Our earth is the only habitat for all of us. We have no right to put the life of our coming generation in polluted environment and unsafe habitat. Collabration and wisdom of all civilized citizen is needed in this direction to aware the general masses.