As the post-Diwali haze continues to choke Delhi and Mumbai, Mira Rajput Kapoor has made a powerful appeal to stop bursting firecrackers and stop calling it “tradition”.
The influencer and wife of actor Shahid Kapoor took to Instagram on Tuesday night, expressing frustration over how people still justify firecrackers during Diwali even as the air turns unbreathable.
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“Why are we still bursting crackers?” Mira asked. “It’s not okay even if it’s ‘just for the kids to see once’ or ‘we’re only doing it this year for fun.’ Neither is it okay for your pataka aesthetic to hold a phuljhadi just for Instagram. Let’s stop normalising this.”
She went on to say that such excuses only pass down bad habits to children, adding, “If we normalise it, so will our kids and this will never st