Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Diwali celebrations:Online Crackers, Fireworks and Nostalgia

After many years I went to crackers market on last Diwali. Some friends hadn't bought the crackers till the eve of festival and we went to a market of whole-sale traders, on the outskirts of the City.

Now a days no one is not going market directely checking and buying from online. www.mycrackers.com is the best sites for buy crackers online. This sites best quality is not chinese crackers its fully from sivakasi. So many sivakasi crackers online shops available now a days in that categorybest site is www.mycrackers.com


The visit also reminded me of my childhood and the memories of Diwali Crackers. In those days the children would buy 'kid pistols' much ahead of the festival. There was a strip of 'tiklis' that was placed like magazine inside the gun. But they aren't in vogue now.

The 'snake tablet' was my favourite. The moment you burn the black little tablet it starts growing in the shape of a long snake. Apart from the quintessential anaars, phuljharis and the sutli (rassi) 'bombs', there used to be small crackers of garlic shape wrapped in colourful paper that were quite popular. Kids would keep them in their pockets and throw them on road. Once they struck a hard surface, they exploded. There were accidents also and ultimately there were banned.

Now coming to today's experience. As usual, there was a wide range of aatishbazi including the sparklers, fire pencils, traditional phuljhadi, anaar (flower pot), rocket, chakris and 'bombs' of all sizes apart from the Chinese crackers....Read More

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