Dirty Indians

Why is this famous ghost, ‘civic sense’, so starkly absent? Is it not because of our casteist ideas of personal and familial purity, never mind the hygiene of the wider, shared public space?

With Indian metros becoming massive wastelands of thousands of tonnes of garbage and filth, it’s time to learn from the great experiment in Karachi’s Orangi, where a slum has become a role model

That’s what we are, Hoo Ha India, superpower nuclear India, floating on public spectacles of yellow swimming pools of male piss, with condemned rivers of chemicalised filth and tonnes of garbage scattered like testimonies of greatness

Hardnews Bureau Delhi

For more than two months now, the country has been racked by all kinds of epidemics. Triggered by the bite of the dreaded Aedes mosquito, chikungunya and dengue fever have felled many young and old. There are thousands more who have been traumatised by these viral fevers and are slowly recuperating from them. These epidemics have lowered productivity and resulted in colossal loss in working hours. Dengue and chikungunya are just seasonal viruses that have hit people in the country. There are millions of people in the country who suffer from dysentery or fall victims to malaria due to poor quality of drinking water and lack of hygiene.