Diwali or Deepavali - call it whatever you want, but the Fireworks sure are Expensive

Ok. Here's the deal.

I suddenly got this urge to kariyaakkufy kaasu. Yeah, I wanted to burst fire crackers ok. So last evening, my dad and I set out in our Suzuki 800. First we went to a local super market that has been advertising like crazy in the newspapers recently. They claim to have super low prices.

So the first branch we went to, told us to go to another branch. That we promptly did. We climbed up the one floor and lo behold, there was this looooooong line of people in front of us. All waiting to buy fireworks. This was a really long line. Some 60 people. Standing in quite a narrow space actually.

I didn't like the look of it. Since there were many bends in the line as well, before you could approach a salesperson, dad and I decided to head to the Kamadhenu / TUCS supermarket back in B'Ngr.

There, there was no line. BUT, usual unorganised crowd. Rude sales-people. And the stock on display was not impressive either. So we rued our fate and headed to the umpteen number of road side shops that stock these things.

Man, the prices were really shocking. We went to 3 shops and in all of them, the prices were quite high. But there were people already buying stuff there. We too finally gave in and bought stuff from 2 shops.

You know what was the cost???? Rs.1250.00. And what did I get? ONLY what you see in the picture. In case you cant see it, here's the breakup
1. Red color matchstick box - for saasthram purpose - 1 individual box
2. Regular Sparklers - long ones - 2 boxes
3. Flower Pot - medium size - 1 box (10 numbers)
4. Thara Chakram - medium size - 1 box (25 numbers)
5. Kuruvi vedi - 5 packs - total of 25 numbers
6. Red Fort medium thickness saram - 56 wala - 10 packets
7. Red Fort 1000 wala - 1 number
8. Fancy dappaas - 1 box - 1 number - the stuff that bursts in the sky with shower of stars
Thats it.

This cost me 1250 ruppees. Few years back, for the same amount, we used to get a whole suitcase of fireworks. And now just this handful.