Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules 2000

India has a right to noise

Nov 7, 2023 3 min read

Excerpt from ‘More light, less sound: On firecrackers and a festival of light’, an editorial in The Hindu on November 7, 2023: The Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules 2000 stipulate that f…

India's Delhi-only air pollution problem

Oct 28, 2019 3 min read

Analysis Scicomm CSIR National Environmental Engineering Research Institute CSIR NEERI decibels Deepavali Diwali festival of lights green firecrackers Heinz Nixdorf Recall human loudness noise pollution Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules 2000 sound pollution

I woke up this morning to a PTI report telling me Delhi's air quality had fallen to 'very poor' on Deepavali, the Hindu ostensible festival of lights, with many people defying the Supreme…

Measuring loudness on Deepavali nights

Oct 25, 2014 3 min read

Uncategorized Central Pollution Control Board decibels Deepavali Diwali firecrackers logarithms noise pollution Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules 2000

The Indian festival of Deepavali gets its name from the Sanksrit for "display of lights", "Deepaanaam aavali". These days, the festival is anything but about lights, especially in…