Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Shit


It is said that the character of a person can be judged by his shoes.. after an year’s experience of visiting various villages across the country, I believe the character of a village/city can be judged by its sanitation facilities.  Sanitation across villages in India is extremely poor. We still have millions of people who do not use toilets… where the narrow lanes are filled with garbage..  and all this leading to increased diseases. This is not to say that urban India is any better… I sometimes feel urban India is worse off. We have so many educated people littering the streets and the blaming the government. It brings me back to the question that where do we stand after more than 60 years of independence… the experience which I share today, were shared by Gandhi years before…  and we still have the balls to say that we are “developing” nation…  on the verge of development, when people here are yet to work on their shitting habits. ..

1 comment:

Saudade said...

Let me begin by congratulating you on a blog after such a long time...

Yeah, sanitation has always been a big problem in India. Ironically, we descend from the people of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa whose sanitation and drainage was said to be unparalleled.

Till we meet the basic needs of hunger, poverty and security for 60% of our non urban population, we will continue to be a 'developing' nation.

We have promise, but not yet. Not just yet.