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...
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On sanitary napkins and innovation…
OR how the politics of subsidies kills the spirit of entrepreneurship… From NextBillion, comes this story by Rishabh Kaul of an extra-ordinary innovation that is being threatened by the politics of subsidies. …Last month,...
On Open Defecation, Hygiene and India Shining – Part – II
Following on from Part-I last week. First in this part, excerpts from Out of the fields, behind closed doors by Tasneem Nashrulla (emphasis mine). This gives some hope. *** Excerpts Begin *** Like most...
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 “सà¥à¤œà¤²à¤¾à¤‚ सà¥à¤«à¤²à¤¾à¤‚…”into a country with “alarming” levels of...
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