Tag Archives: noise pollution
Rule o flaw — part I
This building right opposite my apartment was locked in a legal dispute for years. That must have ended a month ago (in October) because since then a bunch of workers have been toiling nine hours a day, six days a … Continue reading
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Tagged compressed air, demolution, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, noise pollution, Noise Pollution (Regulation) Rules 2000, pneumatic jackhammer
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The frustrating wait for quiet in Chennai
Deepavali is less than a month away — then again it will only be a storm amid a steady drizzle of noises Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic pressure, Deepavali, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, hearing loss, NIOSH SLM, noise map, noise pollution, Noise Pollution Rules 2000, The Hindu, Vinayak Chathurthi
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India has a right to noise
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 firecrackers cannot be burst in ‘silence zones’, designated … Continue reading
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Tagged Deepavali, firecrackers, Justice Amit Rawal, noise pollution, Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules 2000, right to life, right to religion
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Skyward light, wayward light
This is welcome news: … even if it’s curious that three of the four officially stated reasons for designating this ‘dark sky reserve’ aren’t directly related to the telescopes, and that telescopes had to come up in the area for … Continue reading
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Tagged astro-tourism, colour temperature, dark-sky reserve, Dorje Angchuk, Hanle, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, International Dark Sky Association, light pollution, noise pollution, unshielded light
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India’s Delhi-only air pollution problem
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 Court’s direction to burst firecrackers only between 8 pm … Continue reading
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Tagged 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
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Measuring loudness on Deepavali nights
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 urban centers where the bursting of loud firecrackers has replaced the gentler … Continue reading
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Tagged Central Pollution Control Board, decibels, Deepavali, Diwali, firecrackers, logarithms, noise pollution, Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules 2000
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