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Wed, 02 Nov 2005
Diwali, the festival of noise
I’m in India for a few days. As you may be aware, it’s Diwali this week, which is supposed to be the festival of light. It’s been wonderful driving around at night seeing all the buildings lit up with lights.
However, for the last day and a half, I’ve been surprised at all the bang noises I’ve been hearing. At first I thought it was cars backfiring, but then my host mentioned that it was firecrackers.
Huh? These aren’t little snap snap snap noises. These are loud concussive thud noises. For most of the day, it sounded like someone was throwing a grenade every 40-50 seconds. That got annoying. Now that it’s evening, it sounds like gunfire mixed in with the grenades, artillery, and explosions. Been there done that. If I didn’t know better, I would have said I was in a war zone. Bloody hell.
What was wrong with the nice lights?
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