Question

social current issues on Diwali pollution

Answer 1

Air is already heavy with toxic muck before Diwali. There is no room for more pollution either in our air or in our lungs. Like the festival itself, the buzz around its pollution aftermath has also become an annual ritual. Are we serious enough to not to make this festival an occasion to choke, wheeze, and suffocate our near and dear ones? Crackers not only spike pollution levels but also lace it with deadly cancer-causing substances. Is Delhi or any other city prepared to say ‘no to crackers’ this year?

Pollution numbers and angry sound bytes in media show that people are worried about the foul air. But the policy action seems to be obsessed with only keeping Chinese crackers out of the market and not reign in the desi. This only detracts from the toxic and damaging impacts of all crackers, Indian or Chinese, on lungs, heart, brains and more.