Saturday, December 11, 2010

OPEN SPACE


By Shilpi Shukla

It was Indians to have pioneered the idea of domestic toilets and drainage system in the world. Perhaps no other civilization gave so much importance to sanitation and cleanliness as the Aryans did. However, in a tragic and shameful turn of events, in following 5,000 years, we now stand at a point where the glorious history has been soiled to shame. The nation today is short of toilets and that too by millions. Full circle drawn, that is!

Click on the image below to read the complete story published in an Australian publication... 


1 comment:

cooltoad said...

It was a nice read. I feel its all because of the overgrowing population. Moreover, being a a basic amenity it has been lost by most of the cosmopolitan cities and especially the busiest markets in these towns where space utilization is more towards making profits an intuition that overlooks humanism. One can easily make out from the smells coming from the very hidden gullies among these crowded places and people have no other alternative than to resort to open air doings.