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Yippe….can u hear the non stop sound of crackers bursting?.....is it deafening your ears……is the night a delight to your eyes…with all the rockets and crackers lighting up the sky so beautifully…..you see spontaneous twinkling little stars in the sky that glimmer and fade in an instant…well welcome to the festival of lights. Sound, and more action…..the biggest festival of the sub continent…..nonetheless it is diwali….deepavali….deepathinvali……..the paw vali!!..lolz….okai for the uninitiated vali means pain in tamil!!

So finally a day for celebration is here…all the houses are filled with delicious aroma of the sweets in making..few days before diwali…and everyone eagerly waits for sampling it!!..yummy!!....and on the day the sweets are exchanged between the dear and near ones with great enthu!!....come diwali….everyone in my house is whacked to get up early in the morning……take the traditional oil bath which is supposed to be a custom….(so all those heads that did not see oil for the past year….your head is waiting for this day!!;))……and wear there diwali clothes and burst crackers..all that 100, 500, 1000, 2000 wallas….and lakshmi vedi, atom bomb, hydrogen bomb….everything is blasted with no fear….there is a bomb blast taking place in every corner of the street!!..which the police has no authorization to diffuse!!....and everybody at home is dragged to the temple….to visit the lord of all!!...
At the temple..one comes across all there relatives…and well you know the usual greetings and stuff..and where did you get your diwali clothes…if it is the ladies of the family..thats it..where did you get this sari?..did you do the embroidery work on it separately?...where did you stich your blouse?.....your sari looks good..does mine look good?...this colour suits you…and the list of things to be asked about a single sari is endless!!....

Outside the temple….watch your steps!!...coz you don’t know what is lying beneath your feet..it may be the explosive atom bomb….a tiny 1 strip cracker…and everywhere you will be halted by enthusiastic bursters of crackers…coz they have just lit a cracker before you..you cannot pass that way without the cracker bursting!! There are also instances..when the cracker that has been lit does not burst…and you will be made waiting for a longer time…..patiently!!!...and at last after some 20 minutes or so….the cracker will just go ‘fissssss’…!!

Come evening…..then the whole roads will be filled with the flower pots, and chakras…that just lit the entire place….you get to see wonderful fire fountains and swirls...right before you through these flower pots and chakras!!....and rockets are sent to the sky...they go burst in the sky and lit the sky bright enough….at times they even lit your next door neighbors curtains..Or may even break through there windows…..if such an incident happens…and you gotta escpape..there is just only one way….vanish completely from that place..before your neighbor realizes what you have done ;)….

And what is a festival day without all those special programs on television…all your cable channels will celebrate a diwali among themselves…as to whose programmes should be the best…and the end result...the viewer will have a tough time as to chose what to watch..and if there are kids at home..the remote would have encountered its own diwali…of being the item to fight with….one would want to watch one channel….while the other would wail his/her way to watch another programme at the same time in another channel!!.....in the end with nice bursting…sorry blasting from the parents…nobody will watch TV….and will go out to burst crackers….so all the efforts of the channels to make the viewer watch there programmes goes in vain!!

Anyway….here the day is filled with light sound and action……wish you guys a blasting diwali…..burst all those crackers with the maximum sound…your day is not made if you don’t make at least 1 person deaf ;)….and u must burst crackers and send rockets in such a way that all your neighbors windows are broken ;) it is equivalent to tearing the sky apart with your rockets ;)