Noise Pollution

Points: The loudspeaker, a menace—Noise an aggression on quiet loving individual Misuse of microphones should be punished.

             Silence is golden, says the proverb. Time has come perhaps when this proverb should be hung at every road-bend or against each tree or wall. For, who is not afraid of the loudspeaker and who has the infinite patience to turn a deaf ear to it ? Human speech does not pollute, but microphones  do. They din volumes of noise into our ears either in the name of Rabindra sangeet  or in the name of the State lottery offering to make everybody a millionaire.

             Occasions like marriage, reception and public meeting have multiplied in recent years. Each such occasion has the constant backdrop—the long-playing whining from morn till midnight. Even private apartments blurt out radio or TV programmes upon the innocent passers-by for nothing. Noise is now an all-out aggression,” it is above law and beyond remedy. It is the worst epidemic that goes on unabated . The people who generate volumes of noise through Loud speakers are cruel, They have no mercy for even the heart-patients.” What is play to them is death for others. But who cares? We talk of road hazards. But the new road hazard is surely the non-stop electronic horn on the road that deafens the passersby.
             ‘Misuse  will surely be a very tame word. For, spraying noise  just like hot water is not misuse, but a criminal act.’ it is not only unethical but obscene  God help us if we have no remedy for this modern disease called noise or the demon known as ‘loudspeaker.’