You would be very familiar with this pattern - everytime there is a festival, people just have to demonstrate their enthusiasm (their affluence...) by being as loud as possible. I mean the colors are loud, the jewelery adorned by women have to be loud, and who can even ignore the bleating loudspeaker blaring one cacophony after another.
yesterday it was Janmasthami, the birth of Lord Krishna, celebrated by lots and lots of people. the morning began on a peaceful note, but then soon descended into chaos and it became noisy. But it was nothing as compared to today. Today is Independence day and the loudspeakers have started blaring from 9:30 AM. I don't know when will they stop. I think there is a rule in Delhi which prohibits loudspeakers after 10 PM so that people can sleep. I remember when I was a child in Bhagalpur, it used to be pretty lawless then. People would keep on blaring loudspeakers throughout the night and if someone would dare protest, he would be threatened with dire consequences. It used to be sleepless nights for all of us back then what with one loudspeaker blaring from one direction and the other loudspeaker blaring from another. Since then I have detested loud music and I have hated all those people who go around disturbing others in the name of celebrating something, those lousy insensitive uncouth fools.
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