One has to eat well, eat healthy. Also one has to defecate hygienically, not in the open. These basic things are bare minimum for any person. Period.
I could have stopped writing here. But by any standards a blog needs to have a few paragraphs. So let me continue.
My cousin was very happy the other day when she came home. She had gone to her colleagues place for a party. "Newly constructed house, fabulous, you know how much my friend spent on that toilet 1.5 to 2 Lakhs !" was her remark. I didn't find any thing odd with that. If a person can spend 15+ Lakhs on a kitchen with all those elegant Italian, modular pieces, why not spend 10% of it for a toilet? Output is equally or rather more important than input, right?
Talking loudly about toilet or subject related toilet is a taboo for us, for obvious reasons. In my school days to go to the open ground next, we had to use sign language, nothing verbal was practiced. We were shy. Teacher will understand based on our action - 1. stand up like a normal umpire in a cricket match declaring the batsman out, 2. stand up like that seasoned politician who would display happiness on his victory once the results are declared.
We were trained to be shy like that, not to tell loudly in the public. This is a joke, you might have read before, since the topic is such let me repeat it here. Little Sid starts yelling to her mama, I want to go to urinal. Mama tells Sid, "Don't shout like that. Others will hear. You just tell you want to sing a song when you have that need ". They return after watching that "horror" movie. Obviously Sid gets up in the night, reminded of some of those scenes from the movie. He tells dad, "I want to sing now". Dad says "it is night, your mama will wake up, you can sing tomorrow morning". "No No, I want to sing now", Sid was persistent that he needs to show his talent. "If you feel that much, then sing in my ears ". Based on your knowledge on music, you may imagine as what song, in what tune, scale et all , Sid would have sung.
A few of my friends had visited Lal Bagh. Their first visit to Bangalore. After roaming around a bit, they had to answer to nature's call. In normal circumstances, any medium size tree in their front will do for them. Being a foreign place they did not want to take a chance, though there are huge trees in Lal Bagh. They headed towards Pay & Use toilet. The guy asked them "Ondukka, Rendukka " (for one or two in Tamil). The money minded friend who was in the lead while quickly calculating how much they needed to pay, said FOUR, thinking the question was "how many" people. By the time he realised his blunder and started to laugh, that guy was still wondering what were those new service lines No 3 and 4 he needed to start for more income !
When did I drive fast in my life ? Yes, while we were returning from Bandipur to Mysore in that state high way. There were no shops on that high way for Kms stretch in those days. My friend had to go to toilet urgently. I could see him sitting and grinding the seat with lots of discomfort. I had to speed up as if I were participating in a Grand Prix, but looking on the side for a hotel like a place with a possibility of a toilet with in. The moment I stopped the car in front of a place, I saw my friend running towards the guy sitting at the counter. After seeing the urgency, that guy ran inside, my friend on his heels. I thought all had settled and relaxedly got out of the car. Then I saw the guy coming out of the building at double the speed. My friend closely following him. Both were heading towards to the other side of the building, the guy with the key to open the toilet and my friend to use it "badly"!! To open the pandoras box !
Our organization was small those days. 200+ people strength in one building with one decent toilet next to the conference room. Our CEO came out of the conference room to instruct some thing to the admin guy, in between that all important meeting. He noticed that the toilet next to the conference room was being used, locked from inside. "Throw that fellow out, what is he doing inside that? " was his instruction to the admin guy. CEO was worried that if by chance the US customer got a nature's call ( nature of "nature" is always like that, so unpredictable. needless to talk about the predictability of the refreshments that we would have provided to the customer) there would be no alternative to provide !
I am banned from using words toilet, or toilet related words while we have our meal. By my wife. Those words would haunt her through out her meal, even if she continues eating. If she is in front of TV while eating, if that toilet cleaner ad appears, she will change the channel immediately. If remote is not handy, she will close her eyes and meditate till the toilet gets fully cleaned and that delicious "dairy milk" chocolate ad appears next. I do understand this issue and I am sensitive to it, even though I do not have that much problem with that condition.That's the reason I put up the title of this blog accordingly. I presume there is every likelihood that my blog would be picked up while eating compared to a serious HBR article.
"Fifty three per cent of Indian households defecate in the open (600 million people) and the absence of toilets contributes to increased disease burden, malnutrition and impaired cognitive development in children, according to the World Bank. "
And I feel almost another 600 million men urinate in private places on those public roads, daily.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Delhi/Inventors-aim-for-better-toilet-habits/articleshow/32575891.cms
Salutations to Bill Gates for giving so much importance to such a basic need of man kind. He, who had toiled with Windows and Office development for so long, had a big heart to extend his support on building toilets.
India has a long way to go. But we all agree that every Indian needs to go. Go in a clean and hygienic way. For everybody's good. Hope somebody pays more attention to it.
Time for me to go for the day! Bye!
I could have stopped writing here. But by any standards a blog needs to have a few paragraphs. So let me continue.
My cousin was very happy the other day when she came home. She had gone to her colleagues place for a party. "Newly constructed house, fabulous, you know how much my friend spent on that toilet 1.5 to 2 Lakhs !" was her remark. I didn't find any thing odd with that. If a person can spend 15+ Lakhs on a kitchen with all those elegant Italian, modular pieces, why not spend 10% of it for a toilet? Output is equally or rather more important than input, right?
Talking loudly about toilet or subject related toilet is a taboo for us, for obvious reasons. In my school days to go to the open ground next, we had to use sign language, nothing verbal was practiced. We were shy. Teacher will understand based on our action - 1. stand up like a normal umpire in a cricket match declaring the batsman out, 2. stand up like that seasoned politician who would display happiness on his victory once the results are declared.
We were trained to be shy like that, not to tell loudly in the public. This is a joke, you might have read before, since the topic is such let me repeat it here. Little Sid starts yelling to her mama, I want to go to urinal. Mama tells Sid, "Don't shout like that. Others will hear. You just tell you want to sing a song when you have that need ". They return after watching that "horror" movie. Obviously Sid gets up in the night, reminded of some of those scenes from the movie. He tells dad, "I want to sing now". Dad says "it is night, your mama will wake up, you can sing tomorrow morning". "No No, I want to sing now", Sid was persistent that he needs to show his talent. "If you feel that much, then sing in my ears ". Based on your knowledge on music, you may imagine as what song, in what tune, scale et all , Sid would have sung.
A few of my friends had visited Lal Bagh. Their first visit to Bangalore. After roaming around a bit, they had to answer to nature's call. In normal circumstances, any medium size tree in their front will do for them. Being a foreign place they did not want to take a chance, though there are huge trees in Lal Bagh. They headed towards Pay & Use toilet. The guy asked them "Ondukka, Rendukka " (for one or two in Tamil). The money minded friend who was in the lead while quickly calculating how much they needed to pay, said FOUR, thinking the question was "how many" people. By the time he realised his blunder and started to laugh, that guy was still wondering what were those new service lines No 3 and 4 he needed to start for more income !
When did I drive fast in my life ? Yes, while we were returning from Bandipur to Mysore in that state high way. There were no shops on that high way for Kms stretch in those days. My friend had to go to toilet urgently. I could see him sitting and grinding the seat with lots of discomfort. I had to speed up as if I were participating in a Grand Prix, but looking on the side for a hotel like a place with a possibility of a toilet with in. The moment I stopped the car in front of a place, I saw my friend running towards the guy sitting at the counter. After seeing the urgency, that guy ran inside, my friend on his heels. I thought all had settled and relaxedly got out of the car. Then I saw the guy coming out of the building at double the speed. My friend closely following him. Both were heading towards to the other side of the building, the guy with the key to open the toilet and my friend to use it "badly"!! To open the pandoras box !
Our organization was small those days. 200+ people strength in one building with one decent toilet next to the conference room. Our CEO came out of the conference room to instruct some thing to the admin guy, in between that all important meeting. He noticed that the toilet next to the conference room was being used, locked from inside. "Throw that fellow out, what is he doing inside that? " was his instruction to the admin guy. CEO was worried that if by chance the US customer got a nature's call ( nature of "nature" is always like that, so unpredictable. needless to talk about the predictability of the refreshments that we would have provided to the customer) there would be no alternative to provide !
I am banned from using words toilet, or toilet related words while we have our meal. By my wife. Those words would haunt her through out her meal, even if she continues eating. If she is in front of TV while eating, if that toilet cleaner ad appears, she will change the channel immediately. If remote is not handy, she will close her eyes and meditate till the toilet gets fully cleaned and that delicious "dairy milk" chocolate ad appears next. I do understand this issue and I am sensitive to it, even though I do not have that much problem with that condition.That's the reason I put up the title of this blog accordingly. I presume there is every likelihood that my blog would be picked up while eating compared to a serious HBR article.
"Fifty three per cent of Indian households defecate in the open (600 million people) and the absence of toilets contributes to increased disease burden, malnutrition and impaired cognitive development in children, according to the World Bank. "
And I feel almost another 600 million men urinate in private places on those public roads, daily.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Delhi/Inventors-aim-for-better-toilet-habits/articleshow/32575891.cms
Salutations to Bill Gates for giving so much importance to such a basic need of man kind. He, who had toiled with Windows and Office development for so long, had a big heart to extend his support on building toilets.
India has a long way to go. But we all agree that every Indian needs to go. Go in a clean and hygienic way. For everybody's good. Hope somebody pays more attention to it.
Time for me to go for the day! Bye!
yes this is important matter.jokes apart sir .evrybody def need a clean bathroom.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
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