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Crackers hold a fascination for both young and old alike. People express their joy by bursting crackers for any event including New Year, Independence Day, wedding ceremony and last but not the least when team India wins a cricket match. However crackers continue to remain the main theme and attraction during Deepavali. The festival of lights without crackers is incomplete. People start lighting up the dark night sky with colourful rockets on Deepavali eve (which mostly falls on new moon day). Hundreds of fire crackers can be seen glowing and then bursting as though the skies throw confetti all over the earth. When the rocket flies high and burst opens into an umbrella of colourful embers, people from the ground watch this spectacular scene in awe, the beauty raining down towards them. Firecrackers come in different varieties from the delightfully visual ones to the ear deafening noisy ones. The flower pots, ground wheels and hand pencils are visual treats to the eyes while the electric crackers that come in chains of hundreds and thousands and atom bombs are ear deafening. Usually the fireworks that sparkle are lit during the eve and crackers are burst throughout the day. The sparklers are favourites among children while adults love to burst noisy crackers. It is an interesting sight when people of different age light different types of crackers at the same time in front of their houses. The leading firework manufacturers introduce new varieties of crackers during Deepavali. The recently included varieties are tricolour flower pots, butterfly crackers that fly all over the place like a real butterfly, sparkling stones that spark like a bright emerald, dark snakes that uncoil like serpents, dual colour signal crackers that whistle while emitting red and green sparks like SOS signal, animal crackers that zoom all over the ground, golden coin rockets that zoom to the sky with a loud bang and shower thousands of golden sparklers, parachutes, seven shots that bang to the sky and shoot seven shots like bullets, cable cars that function like a real one zooming between two ends of a cord tied to poles and electric crackers. It is believed that illuminating the earth and sky with firecrackers is an expression of curtsying to the heavens for the attainment of health, wealth, knowledge, peace and prosperity. This year too embroidery work, chamki, kalamkari and stone work in saris, churidars are dominating the scene. Short shirts are the craze for youngsters and sharara, ghagra choli and Lapron model wrap around full skirts are the in thing for girls. The usual collection of 3/4th shorts, shirts, butterfly skirts, mini skirts; jeans and T-shirts have flooded the textile shops.
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