Saturday, June 11, 2011

Cleanliness: Plugged, Un-Plugged and Re-Plugged!

Hmm...The very second post is delayed! LOL on me, buddies, as one of my friend did tell me this and now I fully appreciate him and his advice. Thanks! Now moving to the main topic. I was out on shopping last eve and was near a small restaurant "Laadli". It's good. They give paper dishes and cardboard packets for parcels and are a bit Eco-friendly in such contexts. But but but...I saw something which we have discussed to such an extent that we are bored. But there was a paradox at that place. A small kid (in age, physically he seemed to be giant as compared to his age! Young generation!) kept eating a sandwich wolfishly and ended up with 5-6 paper dishes.

I saw his face. He looked very much confused (more than Sibbal on Baba Ramdev's fasts, hehehe) as to where to throw the remnants of the food. Dude, the trash bin was hardly at one arm distance. But he can't see this, why? Wait. Still more to come. His mum was holding a book on Global Warming. Wow! It really looked like we have even left our bookish nature too! The boy (kid doesn't seem appropriate now) threw the dish in such a great manner as if he was a potential discus thrower. Now, another thing happened was that the dish flew directly to a passer by and almost landed near his "charan kamal". Wait. He saw, he scorned, showed his anger and then spat a betel nut and then "woh chala gaya!" :O

This all instantly reminded me of something personal, communal and pinching. I remembered a dialogue from Aamir when the caller says to Aamir Ali, "You saw how our people live like scum of this earth." Let's concentrate on something. Mr. Aamir is neat and clean and importantly no nonsense person and wants to remain same. The caller seems just literate about his small puddle of history that too selective. It's a man's wish whether he wants to remain clean or not. Physically or mentally or both. Frankly, we haven't evolved in matter of cleanliness. We keep fighting for dirtying our surroundings but no one cleans it. Just for a sake of fight we do it. Generally and many of you will surely agree, that the minority surroundings are much more filthy to live. In this, there is 50% share of government and the remaining rests on the dwellers. If you want cleanliness, you have to clean at least your home. Well, it doesn't fit here. You find me doubtful? Okay, take this. Locally, the Bhatiyar gali and almost all the minority dominated area, Ismailnagar in Anand (I recently visited and nearly puked there) and many more.

Sometimes, it is also the dominance of a particular community that plays a great part in keeping cleanliness in surroundings. For example, the very posh area near Prernatirth, Ahmedabad, then comes the Cuffe Parade in Mumbai, Paldi in Ahmedabad, villages of Kutch, etc. where the majority is of educated people who have really digested education (again they are not minority, I am getting harsh now). Really, if you want your share of peace and health please leave your filthiness first and then you will be readily accepted in our country. Else even Kashmir will become Dharavi!

Follow me, as I have "The Dumpyard"!

*Dump*

;)

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