Cracker Free Diwali: This Village Keeps Nature Before Celebrations

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    • Publish Date: Oct 23 2018 6:11PM
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    • Updated Date: Oct 23 2018 6:11PM
Cracker Free Diwali: This Village Keeps Nature Before Celebrations

Delhi is turning into a gas chamber and soon other metropolitan cities will follow. The Supreme Court of India delivered its verdict on Tuesday putting a ‘conditional’ ban on the sale and distribution of firecrackers.


Every year during the time of Hindu festival Dussehra and Diwali, thousands of crackers and effigies are burnt that deteriorate the nation’s air quality index and clog the atmosphere with toxic particles.

For a day’s jovial celebration, the air quality is gravely affected for years to come. Not only this, animals and birds are panic-stricken during the four-day festival. The thud of bombs, crackers scare these vulnerable animals who hide in boroughs during Diwali.

Birds and their nests fall prey to rockets that are released in random directions in the air. While Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu is known to produce eco-friendly crackers which are then transported to different parts of India, another district in the state has been celebrating a silent Diwali for years now.

Kollukudipatti and Singampunari in the Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu stay away from firecrackers to harbour migratory birds who travel from North India, Siberia and New Zealand during the festive season. 

A forest watcher, Veeraiya told The Hindu that in 47 years of her life she has never seen people burst crackers in this village. Many migratory birds such as Asian open-billed storks, black-headed ibis, little cormorants and egrets come to the village to breed. They stay there until March after which they fly with their babies.

Declared a bird sanctuary, Koonthankulam is being looked after by the people only. The villagers are protective about these birds and make sure that they do everything they can to save them.

A resident expert on birds, S. Balpandi informed the Hindu that staying away from crackers was their way of sacrificing for the welfare of birds. A loud thud of a bursting cracker would shoo away the birds leaving the hatchlings and eggs exposed in the open.

The children walk two-kilometres away from the village to burst crackers putting the safety of birds before celebrations. There is also an ancient tamarind tree in Kittampalayam, a village in Coimbatore that is protected like a treasure. Hundreds of bats take shelter in this tree which migrated from a nearby village. A colony of bats inhabited a tree in a nearby village but it was cut down due to the superstitious belief that bats are inauspicious.

The villagers say that the children do not complain about not bursting crackers at all. The villagers believe that birds do more good to nature than the harm done by bursting Diwali crackers. Birds keep their water clean and improve agricultural yield as well.

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Abhinaya.S MAHARISHI SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE

Let us celebrate this Diwali in a natural way rather than bursting up our money in buying the polluting substance that is crackers.It will pollute the nature and reduce the lifespan of many birds. Let us sacrifice the enjoyment of bursting crackers for our beautiful living creatures and our one and only planet earth.Wish u all a very happy Diwali

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