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A worker filling the gunpowder into paper capsules in a firecrackers factory at Kimbulapitiya, 38km from Colombo, yesterday. Firecrackers play a crucial part in Sri Lanka’s mid-April Sinhalese and Tamil New Year where each common activity is observed at an auspicious time heralded by the lighting of firecrackers as the sun is believed to traverse from the last zodiac sign of Pisces into the first sign of Aries. Local manufacturer face stiff competition from imported, specially Chinese made varieties for their variations and noise. The festival differently called the Sinhala Avurudu in Sinhalese and Siththirai in Tamil fuses the two main ethnic communities in the island nation to act in unison to celebrate from April 13 to 15 during these festivities.
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