Pollution in Durga Puja

Durga puja is the pride of the Bengalis in India. We celebrate this Durga Puja for 4 days, i.e. Saptami, Astami, Nabami, and Dashami. In Astami, we pray Maa Durga going to a pandal in our neighbourhood and we offer prayers to the Goddess Durga. In this puja, some clubs play music boxes at high decibel thus causing sound pollution. Sound pollution is not only the last thing that happens in Durga Puja. We have water pollution. We immerse the Durga idols in the waters of the river Ganges. This water gets polluted with the paints in the body of Durga. The clay gets washed away in water leaving the structure. But what happens to the poisonous lead and other harmful minerals in the water? This harmful pollutants absorbed in our body someway or the other. You want to know the harm it causes. Well I have seen..being a witness that some young people have gray hair!! You will say, young with gray hair...I will say ....Yes! This young men have gray hair as the pollutants enter the body and cause genetic modification. I am writing this confidence as I have read it in a report in a science column in newspaper.

Sound pollution is causing harm to our ears and hearing system! The loud music played during the emersion of Goddess Durga in procession with shouting and screaming hurts our ear, which can tolerate sound only upto a certain decibel. The music is soothing upto a certain decibel. Beyond that it becomes an irritant, a nuisance to the human being. He/She feels irritated and angry and swears those who play the play music barbarically! Music at that point becomes an object of hatred!

After a days hard work, I came to my house the day after Dashami and laid in bed, just trying to sleep....but I could not....I couldn't sleep as the noise and shouting of the revelers of Durga Puja going to the riverside is disturbing my hearing tolerance, irritating me to the full extent that my face turned red like an apple and I am shouting at them like a mad person!!