it has been quite a few years that actor vikram chatterjee has stopped bursting firecrackers during diwali talking to us about this the actor said i realised that the pets in our house and also the animals and birds around us get badly disturbed and frightened by the loud noise o the crackers and its also difficult for them to breathe if the environment is polluted with the harmful fumes given the fact that this year has been a very tough time for all of us and the dark days of the pandemic is not over yet we need to be extra careful about not contributing to the air or noise pollution by bursting firecrackers we must think about the patients who are affected by covid19 or are recovering from it and be extra cautious of not polluting the environment bursting of fire crackers lead to several harmful respiratory diseases due to the harmful fumes which comes out of those this year i urge everyone to say notocrackers and let the diwali be a celebration of lights