Why burst when you can eat it?
The Hindu
Continue the conscious celebrations and choose from seed-filled, bejewelled and chocolate firework variants
Buy your crackers and eat them too! In this Diwali box (₹800), savour two flower pots, one atom bomb, a green bomb, two chakras, two sparklers, and more in dark and milk chocolate. Also available are single ‘bomb’ (₹699) and ‘rocket (₹850) variants in six flavours: dark, crispy, butterscotch, orange and coffee. thedottedi.in

On December 7, 1909, Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland’s process patent for making Bakelite was granted, two years after he had figured it out. Bakelite is the first fully synthetic plastic and its invention marked the beginning of the Age of Plastics. A.S.Ganesh tells you more about Baekeland and his Bakelite…












