It helps us to keep connected to our roots, our culture, our values, our origin and to preserve it.

It helps people come together and celebrate.

A time to forget all the chaos of life and to embrace good hopes.

A time to embrace all the hard work done in the past and to celebrate its rewards and fruits.

Helps to document culture in an undocumented manner.

Tells the tale of evolution throughout the years from the changes in the way of celebration.

Take any one particular year and study how a particular festival was celebrated then and it open the door
of what life was then.

It also marks the significant events important to the human race.

It tells you about mythologies and elevates your faith, giving you lessons from inside those mythologies.
You celebrate the good will and teachings you get from them.

Ever noticed that when its time for the arrival of a festival, the whole aura changes, the whole
community gets directed towards a faith, a surrounding full of good hopes, happiness, joy, celebrations is
created. It simply uplifts you bad mood and fills you with positive energy. It gives you an opportunity to
forget all the not so good events of past and initiate fresh & new beginnings. You can also utilize this
opportunity in all other positive aspects you can think of, because your faith is high. A human is a
member of a mysterious species, we don't know about our origin, but with a little faith we have the
power to change the tides and change this world and create something exceptional.

Introduction

Environment is the natural world which is made by the living beings (people, animals and the plants)and
land. Therefore it is the surroundings that affect the behaviour and development of a livingbeing or a
thing. The surroundings may be living factors like plants, animals and decomposers andnon-living things
like air, water, light, soil etc.Human beings are the product of the environment. They are an important
factor of theenvironment. It is the environment that helps us for our survival, growth,
development,reproduction and health. No creature's existence is possible without the balance of the
naturalelements. Thus, there must be a healthy environment for our sound living. The healthier
theenvironment the happier the living beings including humans.However, knowing that the environment
should be clean, healthy and non-polluted, the large scalecelebration of various festivals have degraded
the quality of the environment.The practice of immersion of Ganesh idols after the Ganesh festival in
various cities is causing severewater pollution which leads to the death of tonnes of fish and many
aquatic creatures.The immersion of Durga Statutes during the Durga pooja is also a cause of concern
forenvironmentalists. In Orissa alone 5,000 Durga pooja idols are made, most of them using
harmfulpaints.Diwali, one of the important festivals in India has the distinction of polluting the
environment to thecore. Newborns and aged people have a nightmarish experience because of the high
levels of soundcaused by crackers during Diwali. Noise pollution on Diwali is between 69.7 db and 88.3
db whichare higher than the prescribed limit of 50 db. The decibel levels alarmingly high in metros and it
mayreach up to 100 db.The government, police, pollution control boards are suggesting many alternative
ways to celebratefestivals which does not pollute the environment. Even strict and stringent warnings
are also givento public to refrain from bursting crackers such as atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, bullet
bombs,

thousand and ten thousand wallas. But it is all solely depend on the change of mind.