Deepavali fireworks in the Chennai skyline

I shot this video on Deepavali day, 17 October 2009 from the terrace of my 6 floor apartment complex. My apartment is probably one of the tallest buildings in north Chennai and the view was awesome. Fireworks were almost non-stop and one could see the whole sky lit and sounds heard without a break. And there I was resting at the top-most point, on top of the overhead water tank, comparing the fireworks I have seen in Dallas on Independence day to this.

The Independence day fireworks appear to me like a matchstick compared to the Deepavali wildfire here. Also fascinating was the fact that people have so much money to burn during the worst recession of the century.