Sivakasi disaster: Close firecracker industry or provide safety?

There is hardly any child in India who doesn’t love crackers. The brilliant lights and the near-deafening sounds of firecrackers on display every Diwali, the festival of light, is something many eagerly await to enjoy. Not just the children, even the adults love the whistling sounds of the rockets, the multiple hues of the anar (flower pots), circling flames of the chakri, the phuljharis and the bombs. But what is joy for a section of the populace may translate as death for another. The 38 lives which were lost to the blaze of a firecracker factory in Sivakasi on Wednesday is exactly that translation.

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