What stroke us also in Incredible India is that your country looks like a huge garbage! Once again there is no system implemented to collect garbage or no dustbins in the streets. It has been a year that a campaign began in certain cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata or Pondichery where bins have been put on the streets and introduced to people. The question is do they know how to use it? As far as we are concerned, we throw our rubbish in a garbage but in India it is usual to trow it out of the window of a bus, a train or just in the street and then plastics and stuff will be burned on the road. The other issue that comes with it is the terrible smells and toxics. When writing about smell, it goes beyond burning garbage we also speak about men´s urine (men pee and pooh anywhere), cow dung etc. During our stay, how many penises did we see???? Too many!!!!, maybe toilets will save this problem! The last days temperatures reached 48 degrees, the smell was unbearable. People did not have a problem with it. We did and we found it disgusting. To make India a bit cleaner we could suggest you to remove cows, pigs, goats, dogs, even horses out of the streets! It will make it easier for everyone pedestrians, cars and above all the animals. Seeing goats or cows eating papergarbage or plastics made us very sad. Cows or animals in general are holy but could they not be worshiped in safer places and lived in a better environment, than live in the middle of the streets where chaos prevailed. There is absolutely no place left for them! The paradox is that in some states you do not have cows walking in the streets as they land in your plate!
We will come to an end even we still have a lot to write about: the public transport, custom, daily power cuts and the food. We also learned about the spices, how to make chappati and tandoori. Once I used a tandoori bowl to mix concrete! It looked alike! We enjoyed eating chapatti, roti, dal, rice, poha, pakora, momos, fried rice, ladous, kalachana and Bengali food and good day cookies. We lost up to 8kg withing the first 3 months! 148 days travelling in your country was quite an experience especially crossing the path of a 2 meter snake! "BAS", finish. It is time for us to continue our journey and to fly to the next country: Thailand.
Yours faithfully, ILA PS: As an Indian friend commented, we missed a couple of things such control and power. I added it as PS, see below. "Now, coming to the various points you mentioned. All of them actually are true, but we have been creating this mess for last few decades & some of them are rooted as part of our tradition & culture, which we as society don't want to change as it gives power to individuals to control things. So whether its about Woman empowerment, Dowry, Poverty... there is a constant struggle by powerful to have control of people (mostly underprivileged poor or woman). Surya
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