Our beloved PM is very fond of uttering these words, "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam".
"The World is one large family"- Mahopanishad, VI.71-73
I feel we should slightly modify this statement to make more sense to us Bengaluru residents.
ಕಸದೈವ ಕುಟುಂಬಕಮ್ - Kasadaiva Kutumbakam, means that the family lives solely for all aspects of garbage. Kasa in Kannada means garbage. It is a generic word. Namma Bengaluru should contribute it to the world vocabulary.
Don't screw up your face or grimace in disgust. One drive through any locality of Bengaluru (except where the stinkingly rich or ministers live) will convince you that namma Bengaluru has a HUGE garbage problem.
Hold your breath, (you need to, the stink is unbearable!), Bengaluru generates about 5000 tonnes of waste a day.
If you take the population as 15 million, this is a small 333 gm per person per day. (=5000000000/15000000).
Just recollect all the stuff you bought, used, and threw away yesterday, didn't you generate more garbage than 330g per person?
Now BBMP used to take the garbage, as and when collected whimsically or sporadically, outside the city in large trucks and dump them on agricultural land unfit for cultivation or owned by people unfit for cultivating the land. This has resulted in large areas of land near neighbouring villages which present a horrendous and desolate picture of ugliness and disease.
Nowadays, the BBMP has a fancy, audio-blaring open dumper type of 3 wheeler truck that comes by at unpredictable times every morning (8 am - 11 am) in front of our house in Indiranagar. There are songs, and cameos. Someone with a PhD in Kannada has scripted the words spoken by a loving couple, which describes the programme for garbage collection, your role in this programme, as well as your garbage itself, as "ಅಮೂಲ್ಯ" or priceless!
I do not know, or even care to know, how my priceless garbage is sorted, reprocessed, sold and marketed later. I am sure good people are working on this 24/7 in some BPO soon to have its IPO.
I assiduously collect our garbage in several different containers (wet and dry separately) and rush out as soon as I hear the ear-piercing announcement. I go and wait outside as the procession of the van ambles down like a juggernaut, with each maxi-clad housewife or unshaven hero going up to it and depositing her or his priceless contribution with a sense of triumph and a day full of purpose. I do the same. The vehicle drives past, with that sense of well-being and happiness and my priceless joy engulfing me in a nice, rosy pink, cosy feeling.
India should also patent the "International Garbage Day" and call it "ಕಸದೈವ ಕುಟುಂಬಕಮ್ - Kasadaiva Kutumbakam".
What do you think?
"The World is one large family"- Mahopanishad, VI.71-73
I feel we should slightly modify this statement to make more sense to us Bengaluru residents.
ಕಸದೈವ ಕುಟುಂಬಕಮ್ - Kasadaiva Kutumbakam, means that the family lives solely for all aspects of garbage. Kasa in Kannada means garbage. It is a generic word. Namma Bengaluru should contribute it to the world vocabulary.
Don't screw up your face or grimace in disgust. One drive through any locality of Bengaluru (except where the stinkingly rich or ministers live) will convince you that namma Bengaluru has a HUGE garbage problem.
Hold your breath, (you need to, the stink is unbearable!), Bengaluru generates about 5000 tonnes of waste a day.
If you take the population as 15 million, this is a small 333 gm per person per day. (=5000000000/15000000).
Just recollect all the stuff you bought, used, and threw away yesterday, didn't you generate more garbage than 330g per person?
Now BBMP used to take the garbage, as and when collected whimsically or sporadically, outside the city in large trucks and dump them on agricultural land unfit for cultivation or owned by people unfit for cultivating the land. This has resulted in large areas of land near neighbouring villages which present a horrendous and desolate picture of ugliness and disease.
Nowadays, the BBMP has a fancy, audio-blaring open dumper type of 3 wheeler truck that comes by at unpredictable times every morning (8 am - 11 am) in front of our house in Indiranagar. There are songs, and cameos. Someone with a PhD in Kannada has scripted the words spoken by a loving couple, which describes the programme for garbage collection, your role in this programme, as well as your garbage itself, as "ಅಮೂಲ್ಯ" or priceless!
I do not know, or even care to know, how my priceless garbage is sorted, reprocessed, sold and marketed later. I am sure good people are working on this 24/7 in some BPO soon to have its IPO.
I assiduously collect our garbage in several different containers (wet and dry separately) and rush out as soon as I hear the ear-piercing announcement. I go and wait outside as the procession of the van ambles down like a juggernaut, with each maxi-clad housewife or unshaven hero going up to it and depositing her or his priceless contribution with a sense of triumph and a day full of purpose. I do the same. The vehicle drives past, with that sense of well-being and happiness and my priceless joy engulfing me in a nice, rosy pink, cosy feeling.
India should also patent the "International Garbage Day" and call it "ಕಸದೈವ ಕುಟುಂಬಕಮ್ - Kasadaiva Kutumbakam".
What do you think?
