It’s not just the pandemic that has shrunk every Indian festival to a shadow of its exuberant self. Pollution also has been a factor. Enter the fireworks city of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu......
Illegal Chinese imports, stringent regulations, legal tussles cost industry Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) Sivakasi, the country’s main centre for production of fireworks, is caught in the......
The fireworks industry of Sivakasi has been hit by restrictive explosives laws and growing Chinese domination of the sector. But by adopting new strategies, the cracker companies look set to......