Sharpshooting, smooth talking cracker salesmen test their marketing skills on customers with toy guns on the eve of Deepavali on Cubbon Road in Bangalore on Thursday.
Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
Tags: Churumuri, Deepavali, Diwali, Lord Cubbon, Sans Serif
23 October 2008 at 9:15 pm
The gun in the hand of the salesperson looks exactly like browning 9mm. The manufacturing and selling this type of toys should be banned. There is every possibility of a police officer taking defensive action if a young boy in a troubled locality points a toy gun like this at him.
24 October 2008 at 7:10 am
Happy Deepavali to all our friends and wish you all a very Happy Blogggging!
Subasayagalu!!
24 October 2008 at 10:47 am
Google turns up a browning 9:
http://www.army.gc.ca/lf/Images/2_0/31.jpg
Does look somewhat like the blurred one in the foreground…
Wonder what the history of the ‘cape-in kovi’ is (the ones which take a ‘reel’ of the gunpowder dots and makes a chat-chat sound)? Anyone knows when they first started selling in the cracker stalls?
24 October 2008 at 12:20 pm
It is the beggining of those dreaded time of the year where noise and smoke pollution will reach its high. What is celebration for some is dreadful and traumatic for old and ailing people, pets etc. As a nation we do not have any civic sense. We do not how to celebrate joyous occassions without disturbing the peace and tranquility of the other people. We are dangerously insensitive.
24 October 2008 at 12:27 pm
@kannadiga
I agree with you. Such kind of toys should be banned.
In any case road side stalls/carts should not be alllowed to sell on busy roads . It is going to distrupt the traffic and add woes to already troubled traffic scene.
If they are allowed to sell, they should get licences and pay some money.
24 October 2008 at 2:08 pm
hey, has anyone tried spending money on candles instead of on crackers n then putting candles on every nook and corner of the house, i mean chajjas, window sills terrace walls, basically candles on evry external part of the house(of course with some gap in between candles).
I tried it once and it looked beautiful, me n my sis stopped buying cracker n had been doin that ever since(about 6 yrs now)…but alas im in germany for studies now and am missin the deepavali spirit.
Can anyone do something like this, make a photo and put it up on churumuri for the festive occasion?
elarigoo deepavali shubhashayagalu!
24 October 2008 at 2:26 pm
Very nice headline. Very apt indeed.
24 October 2008 at 4:21 pm
Anna, Tamma, Bhai and Brother yellarigu Deepavali habbada subasayagalu!
Thank you Dharma.
24 October 2008 at 8:55 pm
I am afraid that those pistols and so-called guns would be there before they reach homes?