on two solitude-emerging and receding
my comments on Suj's Life in Bangalore: Garbage Crisis
on two solitude-emerging and receding
Saj:
...you maybe onto something! personal cleanliness vs. civic cleanliness
digression: TO generate over 1.5 million tonnes of waste...our landfill sites are full...currently waste is shipped to a landfill site in michigan...everyday tens of trucks ply on 401 hauling the trash away...after recent elections there ( in michigan) there are rumblings that TO should look elsewhere for landfill
vaughan a satellite town has embarked on a high tech solution...burning all waste and generating power too...it was not a cost effective solution till now...but local councillors claim with rising oil prices this method will be an environmentally cleaner option as well as economically feasible...end digression
as a periodic visitor to india i notice each subsequent visitor indian towns get progressively more crowded, polluted and dirty...(i live here in TO and i may not see the changes around me while a periodic visitor to TO would probably notice more changes)...the streets are the same...just more people, cars etc...the pace of investment in infrastructure lags behind the pace of increase in population – with all that manifests
remember this is my overview of visits...am not commenting on a specific town or neighbourhood that may have coped better...
another digression: and this is utterly puzzling for both of us as we criss-crossed the country and got invited into the homes of perfect strangers...from cab and auto drivers modest shacks to the plushest of houses and apartments...
we found ordinary indians to be the very particular about personal hygiene and their immediate surroundings were spotless...the kitchens or rasoois...you can eat off the floor...and mind you this compliments comes from M who is hitlerian when it comes to cleanliness in home...
khair
the puzzling part was this...while the homes are spotless and they pay so much attention to its cleanliness what happens when it comes to corporate or civic senses?...why do they just dump their garbage so callously...often throwing garbage over their compound/house walls onto public property?
and i would not even venture on the other basic amenity – toilet
--india a tale of two solitude!
on two solitude-emerging and receding
Saj:
...you maybe onto something! personal cleanliness vs. civic cleanliness
digression: TO generate over 1.5 million tonnes of waste...our landfill sites are full...currently waste is shipped to a landfill site in michigan...everyday tens of trucks ply on 401 hauling the trash away...after recent elections there ( in michigan) there are rumblings that TO should look elsewhere for landfill
vaughan a satellite town has embarked on a high tech solution...burning all waste and generating power too...it was not a cost effective solution till now...but local councillors claim with rising oil prices this method will be an environmentally cleaner option as well as economically feasible...end digression
as a periodic visitor to india i notice each subsequent visitor indian towns get progressively more crowded, polluted and dirty...(i live here in TO and i may not see the changes around me while a periodic visitor to TO would probably notice more changes)...the streets are the same...just more people, cars etc...the pace of investment in infrastructure lags behind the pace of increase in population – with all that manifests
remember this is my overview of visits...am not commenting on a specific town or neighbourhood that may have coped better...
another digression: and this is utterly puzzling for both of us as we criss-crossed the country and got invited into the homes of perfect strangers...from cab and auto drivers modest shacks to the plushest of houses and apartments...
we found ordinary indians to be the very particular about personal hygiene and their immediate surroundings were spotless...the kitchens or rasoois...you can eat off the floor...and mind you this compliments comes from M who is hitlerian when it comes to cleanliness in home...
khair
the puzzling part was this...while the homes are spotless and they pay so much attention to its cleanliness what happens when it comes to corporate or civic senses?...why do they just dump their garbage so callously...often throwing garbage over their compound/house walls onto public property?
and i would not even venture on the other basic amenity – toilet
--india a tale of two solitude!
posted by temporal at 3/17/2006
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