Tamosa ma jyotir gamaya - From Darkness to Light

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Dear friends

 Happy Diwali to one and all!!!

 As the morning unfolds you may be finding your facebook pages filled with Diwali wishes and lovely smses in your phones. 

 Before you respond to all those, you may like to have a small glimpses of a not so beautiful incident that had happened in front of my block in the apartment I stay.

It was way past 10pm on the night of Diwali, beyond permissible hours of burning banned crackers. Lighting of noise cracker was rampant nearby the badminton court which is adjacent to my block.

A neighbor of mine went down requesting to restrain from using the banned crackers. Forget about restraining, acting naive, they were in denial and don't even know who were burning those.

The noise decibel reached further height and it was around 11:00 pm. Police had to come, seized some crackers, warned few and left. I saw children running upstairs in fear, holding bunch of bombs and noise crackers, terrified that the police had come. It made me feel sad and very angry at same time. Children who are now afraid and wants to grow up as law abiding citizen, will not be allowed too, because soon the mockery of the system will unfold, by non other their folks of our age and society around.

As soon as the police left the place, burning of noise cracker reached intolerable level. It was past midnight, unable to sleep I had no option but to again request for stopping this show. Calling out people from my veranda also could not reach there ears, which I believe had gone deaf by now. Marking the fellows by face who were lighting those crackers, I had go downstairs and ask them to stop it.

Again on denial and acting naive, typical symptoms of culprits of culpable crime, they don't know who are burning them. Ruckus grew louder and stronger, when some of my like minded neighbour came down asking for the immediate stoppage of burning sound crackers.

Amid all this some beautiful(read ugly) lines came out from some of the intoxicated mouths, few which I will like to highlight below(leaving aside the dialogues on communal disharmony, which we have portrayed gloriously in past, as the topic here is noise pollution)

"It is my festival, I will celebrate it in my way"

"First stop entire Kolkata from burning noise cracker, then we will"

Sigh, what value system we are going to pass on to the Gen2.0 in this complex. It really makes me wonder. Never knew Diwali is a festival for few, not for other. And why shall we wait for Kolkata to stop first. Can't we be a model noise free complex.

Friends time is still with us, let us all change for good. Lets wage war against noise crackers and make next diwali noise free so that our Gen 2.0 have a better ear, heart and have great health.

This entire article is not against any group or community. It is against the darkness residing in us and for that we will again light diya next year and pray "Tamaso ma jotir gamaya".
Thanks for reading!

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