The dark, dim evening, were lit up with striking colours.
The crackers,when lit up rose into the inky black sky and showed off their beauty.
Inside the colourful wrapper , a silver grey powder filling is found.
Have you ever wondered how poisonous this is?
We are often warned to wash our hands after playing with fireworks, for this silver grey powder is highly poisonous and made up of potassium nitrate.
crackers are manufactured in sivakasi in tamilnadu. sivakasi is mainly dry and there is a little scope for agriculture
sivakasi is known as little japan of India.
For ,like japan,sivakasi's inhabitants work round the clock. Many people work in firework units, which do not adhere to labour rules. Thus child labour is practised here.
Since these units are in poor condition, accidents are are very common and many of them takes the lives of the children.
Is this how the owners do!!!
"this is how the children are forced...to work........even though their ideas and dreams toward studies....??
The children are in broken health due to regular inhalation of toxic air.
What can we, the better placed, do to help these children?
An immediate remedy is to cease buying crackers. Many of us know this but we also know that the celebration of a dark diwali is hard to take . we should think twice though.
were we ready to light up our diwali and not think about those suffering kids?
we are gazed up at the admirable beauty of the crackers till they burn out and then we were ready to light up another one. But the question that never struck us was that,
were we selfish enough to play with fireworks at the cost of the health of so many others like us??????
-Navya-
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