A slew of never-before-seen firecrackers will brighten up the nights this Kali Puja and Diwali. There are unusual hues of chocolate, crimson, violet and blues bursting out in jets from multiple spinning wheels \u2013 that have filled the fireworks market this time.<\/p>\n
There are displays of light wrapped in bright packaging of some popular chocolate bars, assorted spinning wheels or chark<\/em>i<\/em> in packages resembling popular confectionary products and more.<\/p>\n The\u00a0chocobahar celebration<\/em>\u00a0contains four boxes, each box containing five spinning wheels. On lighting the wick, all five wheels start spinning simultaneously putting up 10-seconds display of lights.\u00a0Chocobahar<\/em>\u00a0is currently the most popular among the fireworks being sold in retail market of Champahati and Haral in Baruipur in South 24 Parganas. A pack of\u00a0Chocobahar<\/em>\u00a0comes at Rs. 290. This has been developed by workers of the area.<\/p>\n As the police, administration and activists fight to stop the noise pollution, there is a definite tilt towards making the visually delightful fireworks. But perhaps it will take many more years to stop the firecrackers that cause noise pollution.<\/p>\n Another popular contender this year is\u00a0Akash Charki<\/em>, which is 10-inch long, rises 40 feet into the air while spinning. It continues to spin for seven seconds while giving out multicoloured streaks of light. Five pieces sold in a pack, cost Rs 120.<\/p>\n Crackling Bahar<\/em>\u00a0is a specially designed eight-inch long flowerpot which will give out rainbow of seven colours. The sparkles coming out will make a clock-like sound and the display will continue for close to a minute. It comes in two sizes \u2013 the eight-inch variant costs Rs 250 and the four-inch type costs Rs 60.<\/p>\n The spiller charki<\/em> has been especially designed to spin on both sides. Ten of these are sold in a pack and costs Rs 110.\u00a0Jewel pot<\/em> on the other hand, is three-inches long flowerpot which will give out milky white streams of light for 10 seconds.\u00a0The Arjuna flower pot<\/em>\u00a0will give out small pieces of paper-like visual effect along with the usual display of light. It comes at Rs 40.\u00a0These ingeniously designed fireworks are turning out to be tough competition for the famed ones from Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu. Banned fireworks with noise limit beyond 90 decibels continue to be sold surreptitiously in retail markets of Champahati, Haral, Solgohalia and Begampur in South 24 Parganas.<\/p>\n To escape searches being conducted by police, these banned crackers are not just displayed, but codenamed or nicknamed nimki<\/em>,\u00a0totka<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0pute. <\/em>Prices start at Rs 40 and go up with increasing size.<\/p>\n In Champahati, 30 km from Kolkata, banned firecrackers \u2013 the most popular among them being chocolate bombs \u2013 are sold throughout the year. In order to stay on in the business and to prevent customers from going empty-handed, sellers often say it is a compulsion to sell the banned firecrackers. The same situation prevails in Sogohalia and other areas.<\/p>\n Kolkata Police has taken stringent measures this year to prevent entry of banned firecrackers which come mostly from South 24 Parganas. Lalbazar, the Kolkata Police\u2019s headquarters, has alerted all police stations to check godowns to prevent stockpiling of banned crackers.<\/p>\n But whether these and other measures prove to make a huge difference, only Kali Puja and Diwali next week will show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Banned firecrackers have been codenamed to be sold in the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":6957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHowever, though such newly designed fireworks have filled the market, people\u2019s habit of bursting noise-producing crackers doesn\u2019t seem to be a thing of the past yet.<\/p>\n