Sunday, November 25, 2007

Can't use a DUSTBIN??

today i had been to a railway station. we had just finished shopping and we were very tired. So we got two cups of coffee and one cup of pepsi. There was a dustbin near the stall, and i was so happy that i can make use of it, because it is so hard to find a dustbin in my city (chennai). But i was angered beyond limits when the lady incharge of the stall ordered us not to use the dustbin; and the reason she gave was that if we used the dustbin, flies will hover around her stall. What a dumb woman! I was really flush with anger. How horrid can people get?? When dustbins are provided, WHY is a CITIZEN of India PROHIBITED from using a dustbin?? It just makes no sense. Still my anger hasn't subsided. It is so pathetic and this is injustice.

Two days back, a man came from EXNORA (Excellent Noval and Radical Ideas), a group that is doing a really good job of keeping our city green and clean and creating awareness among students. This man, presented many good ideas and thoughts how we can keep our land litter-free. He told us that we must use our spare dustbin, ie, our pockets, to store the candy wrappers and other papers and then throw them in a dustbin. He told this because there aren't many dustbins around these days. But today I was disgusted at the way that woman literally told me to litter. She told me not to use the dustbin!!! How could she? Where are her brains?

Then when I climbed the stairs of the railway bridge, I looked out. All along the railway tracks there were so many white plastic papers and plastic cups and all kinds of waste. If every person who threw that, had enough sense and used his "spare dustbin", just imagine how green that place would have been?? Grass would have thrived and we would have had a lovely lush green path all along the tracks. But now, the land looked dead. It was so dirty. Why this injustice? why isn't there a right to use even a dustbin????? This is plain madness, i would say... what do u folks out there say?

4 comments:

zEaLoUsMe™ said...

feels like people are still backward, n jus care about themselves... their mindz need a whitewash!!! :)
tc!

Naomi said...

Yeps absolutely true... people from organizations such as EXNORA should educate such kind of people. I feel that the youth of India have more civic sense than the others.

GK said...

That's the problem my friend.. they don't do it.. and when one tries to do it.. they won't let it happen.. anyway don't worry.. will change one day.. but don't expect to happen in our life time... ;)

Naomi said...

well, i am beginning to wonder "will it *ever* change??!!!