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| This Diwali not for sweets | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 8
This Diwali, in contrast to the previous ones, is not D day for the sweet sellers. The Halwais or sweet sellers who would have brisk business around Diwali and on the day of most popular festival of Hindus are in a state of despair and cross fingered, since sweets are not on the priority of lists on the Diwali shoppers, either for domestic consumption or for giving gifts to their relatives and friends.
In view of large scale complaints and talks of artificial khoya having been imported in the state for making sweets for Diwali and the milk products made of the same as well as spurious edible oil and other ingredients being used in preparing the sweets, particularly during Diwali season, customers by and large are averse to buying sweets. They have switched over to other items like dry fruits and gift items of household use or pieces of decoration for exchange of gifts. The sweet meat shops are not witnessing the rush of customers to which they were used in the past.
Although it is still not a stage of "diwala" for the sweet sellers, yet many are in a state of anxiety and weeping over their business receiving setback, with not many customers turning up for purchase of sweets. |
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