As per report with thousands of workers painstakingly hand making vast volumes of firecrackers, Sivakasi in tamilnadu is usually at full tilt before Diwali. But due to efforts to curb air pollution, the pyrotechnics epicenter is fizzling out. Meanwhile in addition to gifts, elaborate feasts and family get-together, diwali, which falls this weekend, is also about setting off firecrackers millions of them.

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Furthermore their smoke combines with other emissions to turn the air among the world's most polluted into a deadly, sickly yellow cocktail that one study says kills a million indians prematurely every year. Meanwhile just before diwali last year, the Supreme court ruled only "green crackers" that emit fewer pollutants could be used, but although the police tried to enforce the new rules, most people set off the old type regardless.



D Mathan, director of Lima Fireworks  said "Usually after diwali the people come to us and place orders for the next diwali and even give some advance payment," one of around 1,000 manufacturers in Sivakasi. Moreover the industry is the biggest local job creator, directly or indirectly employing hundreds of thousands of people, many of them uneducated women, churning out boxes of crackers with names like "Napoleon Total War".

 


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