Before starting let me confess this is not my original idea …it’s borrowed from a friend who’s too lazy to write even a page! Oh yes Shivangi, would have loved it if it came from your pen, let it be now thanks for the really interesting idea and I will try to do justice to your thought …let see how successful I am!
I guess it’s really very important that with the exceptional quantitative growth of our country, it is also important that we grow qualitatively, become better and more responsible citizens, let the country grow with helping the government in terms of development of infrastructural projects which in turn will help us later. So while talking to Shivangi I came across this real weird or rather interesting thought, a very interesting comparison between EDUCATION, STANDARD of LIVING and CLEANLINESS
Its inevitable that the more money you ha
ve the better your lifestyle gets, you try to look good, have a better cell phone, buy a bigger car, go around with people of your class, show off, so invariably the lifestyle becomes royal… but you still do things that your servant, a beggar or a hawker does… you litter the place!! Be it a cigarette bud, a chips packet that goes down on the road and not in the dustbin. So is it improvement in life but you still are the same gawaar as you still were, your habits don’t yet match the upper class. Do they??
Now take another scenario, the youth of the country is said to be highly educated, more than 2 lakh people appeared for CAT last year, around 350000 engineers pass out in a year, around 40 lakh college graduates in a year, these days its become a fad to talk against the system… the education system is crap, it only meant for muggers. But have you done that one important thing every teacher taught you… throw trash in a bin!!! You never did it…chocolate wrappers, chips, paper goes down the road, down everywhere but the dustbin, and we still are proud to say we are MBA’s, engineers… if you are one please behave like one!! Or please give away your degrees and go back sweeping or rag picking
One thing these days I get really frustrated seeing is …young parents don’t even care their kids throwing litter on the road in the room or everywhere, agreed you never learned the manners please teach ‘them’ for god sake!! The other crap thought I come across is “USNEY BHI NEECHE PHEKA TOH MAI KYU NAHI PHEKOO” so the next time you get to know that “Woh” loves to pee on the road try that too. C’mon that’s a point of view of the uneducated, education empowers you think for yourself so kindly think for your self and not the others!!!
Quite an hard hitting article this has become so let me just close down wit a debate, so heres the problem… we need to get cleaner, in our habit as well as in our thoughts… should we come out yet another campaign that educates you not to litter and go in vain, or should we have police kicking you’re butt for every trash that you throw on road. So the debate is open come up with solutions and lets see if we can make it big time remember more than a 100 people will read this article at least and one of them could be an influential person somewhere !!
You made the right point this time. People inspite of being educated are ethically uneducated. Look at that superb skoda octavia which just zooms by you and halts nearby. And then all of a sudden the door opens and “pichoook” the driver spits out, closes the door and drives away. You are astonished.
Interesting…but I’d like to add another lil’ dimension to it…now once I was with this friend (Shruti) at a railway station and had a lil’ frooti can to dispose and as its always is there wasnt a garbage bin in sight…she told me we could simply throw it anywhere…i mean by the rail tracks…and i quoted Shivangi who would have simply waited for a proper disposal site to come her way…until then she would have simply kept the litter with herself…now shruti what had to say was that if we simply threw the stuff by the tracks, they surely would be collected, the place cleaned and the rag picker could earn a lil too…basically her point was instead of keeping the can with us and maybe not finding a trash can later…it wouldnt be a very bad idea to simply throw the stuff at a place where you are sure it wud be taken care of later…it sure doesnt exactly count as very good civic sense but atleast you wudnt have to carry the trash with u and atleast you made sure it will be picked up…now i wouldnt say this is what one should do always but dont you think, sometimes when u really dont find the right place…this wud the thing to do…what do u people say?
Cleanliness of self is given more of importance while ignoring clealiness in the society which gives us definition . I feel that civic sense is something which has to be inculcated in the upbringing received and we as the young adults can really make a difference in inculcating the right attitude towards our own generation and also the future generation . You have pointed a very relevant point and touched upon a subject which is been yawned upon by the youth .
i guess this country cant do without living in dirt….. i guess the phrase which says “mitti se aaya he, mitti me chal jaayega” something like dat…. i guess we take this literally… we like to live in this filth, this unclean city…… we have our administration doing their best to enforce cleanliness drives, celebrities doin their something for the society…. all this is fucking Bull SHit…..
no matter how much we try to improve ourselves we will still be the same…… its in our blood, even a darn transfusion cant wipe it out of our system.
but the most ironic part i have observed is when we indians go abroad, and see the clean place n all that we dont feel like dirtying it. i have observed inidans abroad, will make sure they chuck their wrappers, cups etc. in the bin……
we kind of have been habituated by livin in this filth….. i guess u r right our parents too ignore this and becoz of this, this just carries on to the next generation…..
we r leading lavish lifes, theres so much of plastic around, which can be very convenient, but also very prone to be scattered around all over the place….
i guess we need a tsunami to clean the mess which has been created, which gets created everyday….
hmmmmm…………”
Rightlyyyy said ……..the thought u hav discused is truely true even then the way to behave in the same manner is not changed …………people do the same stupid things ……..what a top class or a middle class person do. Thus education doesnt teaches everything …………….these r learned by a person from nd surroundings, related persons and his/her own thinkinggggg.
The reason i guess why mumbai is tooo much dirty is this that the person gets good education bt they didnt utilize it properly bcz they do nothing to improve the city or their surroundings…….as The city has its name “.MUMBAI”……..but the name is nt carried by it …………..when u want to cross ny area then it becomes neccesary to close ur noseeee nd pass the way …………which is just irritating……….//
i m saying this bcz i belong to a city which is very much cleaned ..properly planned………dnt take me wrong i m nt proving ny things but jst wanna tell………..but i bet u if u ll visit , it will be unable to frgt nd u wnt to stay their frever …………………again it is a bet fr meeeeeeeee…
So U R always welcome to “CHANDIGARH”
gud 1 yaaar the blog ws really very intrstn………….keep up
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Well, thank you so much for giving credit where it is due and am sorry for being almost as lazy about writing my comment!!!
It is a thought that gnaws at my innards everytime I walk down any path in this godforsaken country and I seriously feel murderous rage against anyone who feels it is their bloody birth right to chuck their excrement on the roads they don’t deserve to walk on. I don’t understand why a parent will find it very extremely convenient to beat the living day lights out of a toddler for leaving his/her toys on the floor of the house and on the other hand just walk on without flapping an eyelid or any such change of expression when the same offspring chooses to dump his/her candy wrapper on the bloody platform of a train station, a public garden, or their own bloody street.
And as an aftermath it is always obviously the bloody Governtment’s fault when the drains get clogged and their drinking water gets mixed with their own shit. Yes, they don’t realize that they’re feeding their own children their own goddamn shit when they’re allowing them to do that abhorable act of trashing.
Fuck education and fuck civic sense, what kind of logic on this planet allows human beings to think that they can survive like this? Why did the so called “All mighty” create him/her in His/Her own image if He/She wanted them to live like fucking pigs and sows? Why don’t we also thrive and wallow in filth and eat shit as a delicacy? What makes such people exist?!!!
I don’t know and I think it is going to be a painful endeavour to find out.
Thank you again for making the effort Nikhil, ol’ buddy, ol’ pal!
Really appreciate it, love you! Muah!
This is one nice point you have picked up…and this is so true.
What to say..I do t hat at times too..
But yes you are very right in all this..We ought to make decisions and understand it all!
Very important issue u have touched upon here. I personally try to avoid littering whenver possible. But since we do not have proper waste disposal everywhere, I am compelled to throw it at the closest thing to a litter bin.
Usually I carry my litter home and throw it in the dustbin (mostly plastic wrappers and all), I think it is one good way we can stop littering. But I can’t carry organic waste (like banana skins) in my bag.
I just hope more people stop thinking it is silly to carry your litter till you can properly dispose it.
good job writing this.
Nik you have really mooted a decisive issue. It’s a tendency in India to follow someone’s suit -“USNEY BHI NEECHE PHEKA TOH MAI KYU NAHI PHEKOO”. Even if it is a highly educated person or an underprivileged. Also we can’t blame the administartion fully. People should understand the responsibility of making his/her city clean and also enlighten others. Administration ought to keep a hawks eye on cleaning up and decomposition of garbage. It could enact rules like fine of Rs 500 if anybody caught spreading tarsh or simply make an example of someone.
Above all its about self responsibility to make our country clean and green.
“People don’t understand that not only can they make a difference, it’s their responsibility to do so”
Keep blogging….