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Is there one major festival of Hindus which is celebrated peacefully and without causing harm to Humans and the environment? I've been told that only the festivals of the Ahl ul Kitab (People of the book or Muslims, Christians & Jews) have a relatively much peaceful sort of celebration of their respective festivals.

The Hindus' celebrate Diwali and literally thousands every year have their eyes injured, faces burnt, and what not, and its notorious for causing:
a) Air pollution - due to bursting of crackers
b) Noise pollution - see above
c) Sound pollution - see above
d) And the injuries which I have talked about.
And don't think its only them who are injured, more than 30% of the injured are innocent onlookers, passer-by's...the percentage may be even more. The hands that make those crackers are poor children (they work faster & are agile) who get various skin diseases later on. The working condition's ? Don't ask.

So the destruction is all around and deeply permeating.

Ganesha festival:
a) Full on water pollution - they make idols of clay and extremely harmful chemicals (99%) later on are used to decorate those idols. Later on, those idols are sunk into the rivers, ponds, sea's, etc. The civic agencies need to work extra post the festival to clean out the filth and yes, millions of fish die each year due to the pollution, not necessarily on D day. Its harm is spread across many months. And people die of drowning too...

Same is with the Durga pooja in Calcutta.

Every year the govt. issues an advisory to the hospitals to add extra staff at hospitals, medical clinic's on the day of Diwali (also called Deepavali) Do you know Diwali is also known as 'The Festival Of Lights' Its ironic 'coz it literally takes the lights out of the eyes of thousands every year There is one more major festival in which they play cards (or bet) throughout the day of the festivals, get mad at each other & others, fight, get drunk madly, I think its called Ugadi or something. I know fighting isn't part of festival & it depends on the individual, but betting is mandatory.

And when they die, they need to be burnt (using wood mostly, of course) and later on the ashes are spread in the rivers (The ritual is called 'Antyesti' or 'Antim Sanskar'). Some communities/tribes take the short cut, they just drop off the bodies into the river. I could give you so many links of dead bodies floating in the river, but lets not go there, shall we?


Why do I say hypocrisy? Because they walk around thinking & believing they are saviors of the environment (because they are veggies*).

*That debate is for another day & a different thread. Actually, its not needed at all.
If any hindu brothers are reading this, let me tell you, I'm not prejudiced in any way, you all know what I'm saying is true, you just need to ask Google if you or if anyone is in doubt.

We really can't thank Allah SWT enough for giving us the wealth of Imaan. We just can't