Sivakasi wants firepower to fight China rockets

Between April 7 and 16, the town of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu wore a deserted look. Those 10 days saw manufacturing units in the hub of India's firecracker industry going on an indefinite strike to protest both the steep increase in the various charges related to manufacturing explosives and the government's inability to slow the import of Chinese incendiaries into the country.

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