Tagged: Open Defecation

Hygiene in Ancient India

This is a old draft of a ‘lazy’ post that never got published. It has some fascinating detail on the practice of hygiene and sanitation in ancient India. The first extract is from a...

Sujalam, Suphalam*…and yet…

Here is a grim and sad reminder of Bharat’s under-development and how poor governance, bad policies and corruption have conspired to turn a land praised by Bankim Chandra as “सुजलां सुफलां…”into a country with “alarming” levels of...