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Pick-Pocketing the Common man in the Name of Swachh Bharat One year back P.M. Narendra Modi had grandly announced his Swachh Bharat Mission with much fanfare, the Bollywood and Cricket personalities along with some political leaders of ruling parties with the push of corporate media have exhibited the ‘scenes’ of Swachh Bharat mission cleaning some roads with rubbish. Schoolchildren were made instrumental to attend to these “Swachh Bharat” a show of cleaning activities. Even Mahatma Gandhi and his aspirations about ‘cleaning India’ were invoked to justify the mission as well to make believe the common man that something great was going to happen to our country and to the people. In the name of making this mission a great success the corporates were permitted to spend their CSR funds of statutory obligation for the activities of Swachh Bharat mission. Huge amounts were spent on advertisements to promote the ‘ideas’ of Swachh Bharat. With much ado, the Swachh Bharat campaign concentrated on the ‘uncivil’ habit of Indian masses of open defecation and boasted that it would construct toilets to one and all and that it would complete its ‘grand’ mission of cleanliness by 2019, before the date of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150 th Bir Ѡ