Are we changing the meaning of DEEPAWALI ??

INDIAN culture is full of festivals. We celebrate hundreds of festivals all over the year. These festivals are celebrated depending upon what our history tells us. Every festival has its own significance and meaning. Our festivals are only and only intended to make the bond between people stronger by letting them gather on these occasions.

DIPAWALI is one of the most important festivals of INDIA and is celebrated by the whole family together. This festival of Lamps and Sweets is celebrated in the memory of triumph of good over evil. When Lord RAMA returned to AYODHYA people welcomed him with lamps. This continued and the festival is named as DEEPAWALI..

It is the festival of bringing all together and worshiping Goddess Lakshmi.. Decorating our homes by lightnings and make Goddess Lakshmi feel welcome. Our traditional ways of celebrating Deepawali are so meaningful and representing happiness. These traditions are only and only part of INDIAN history and culture.

Though we are having such a great heritage from gods, are we not making use of it? Are we about to lose it?

From year to year the way we celebrate Deepawali is changing. The festival of light has turned out to be the festival of CRACKERS.. The festival of sweets has turned out to be the festival of POLLUTION.

The fun out of EXPLODING CRACKERS costs deep effects on our lives. Apart from an instantaneous fun there is no other positive thing about crackers for which we should use them.

Crackers not only create problems to us but they also contribute to serious global environmental issues.

Sound Pollution and Air Pollution made by crackers are too serious than the fun we get from them.

When I proposed concept of Eco-friendly Deepawali 2012 to my friends, one of my friend put a question on me that due to people like me INDIAN culture is getting vanished. According to him we should not leave the way in which our festivals are supposed to celebrate. Further he added “why should we adjust for the sake of others problems?”………well I just laughed and said, these problems are not somebody else’s, they are ours .Tomorrow when these global environmental problems will be amplified, they will not leave you a chance to come out of that…

Our culture never said us to use harmful chemicals in crackers; it never said us to make bigger sounds from crackers than your neighbour. So not using crackers is not at all like demolishing the culture.

Negative side of using crackers: 

1. Crackers create heavy Sound Pollution…

2. Crackers create heavy Air Pollution..

3.Ever year thousands of childs get body harms due to Crackers..

4. Every year at least a couple of crackers industry gets fired and causes death to the workers working there..

Over above all , the one and only one positive point about crackers is instantaneous fun.

This fun is too much countless in front of above problems..

still we never discuss about THE CHANGE. We never take any step towards it.

So this time I humbly request all of you to start this change journey…

LETS CELEBRATE THIS DIWPAWLI MORE ECO-FRIENDLY.

HAPPY DIPAWALI J