India’s Firecracker Ban an Explosive Issue
Pollution versus pleasure
By: Neeta Lal
A decision by some of India’s most populous states to prohibit the manufacture and sale of firecrackers in the runup to the Nov. 4 start of Diwali, the country’s biggest Hindu festival, is setting off a different kind of fireworks as a populace beleaguered by Covid-19 and other tribulations rebels against the ban.
Last week, the western Indi…
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