inBoxed food . And must we showcase these eyesores and stench generators in visible proximity of our high rise structures or at the entry points of metropolises ? There are solutions for waste management . As mentioned in your cover story , the effort has to begin from citizens who should mandatorily segregate waste . If spraying bioculture on smaller heaps of well screened bio waste turns it into soil-like matter , the same method can be applied later to the bigger mounds of waste .
Bangalore Pradeep Baid : In Bangalore , we face the dual problem of garbage piles and polluted lakes . A telling monument of the collective apathy of Bangaloreans , both citizens and municipal bodies , is the once pristine Bellandur lake , which froths and fumes , as if in disgust , due to pollution . It even bursts into flames , literally , with a potent mix of domestic industrial waste acting as fuel . Waste segregation at the source is half of the solution and proper long-term planning with corruption-free disposal of waste by the authorities is the other
JOINT FARM Modi and Yedyurappa
The Indignity of Labour
GOA M . N . Bhartiya : This is with reference to your editorial comment ( Gandhi ’ s Spectacles , April 23 ), Gandhi ’ s advice for the maintenance of sanitation and equality in society — that we should all ‘ become ’ bhangis — proves his shrewdness , as he never wanted to offend the majority of non-untouchables by stating the truth that we all are all rotten at heart . We hire others to clean our toilets . We claim to be human beings , but don ’ t understand the ABCD of humanity when we consider our own brethren to be untouchable . The only way left to understand the equality and dignity of labour and the practice of untouchability is to clean the toilets and handle others ’ shit . Only then may we be better placed to talk about sanitation and equality in society .
half . We must all wake up or be ready to be buried under these mountains of doom . The Alappuzha model is worth emu lating and citizens there deserve a standing ovation .
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SECUNDERABAD K . R . Srinivasan : It is curious that the BJP in Karnataka is finding it tough to take advantage of the
anti-incumbency factor in the Congress-ruled state ahead of next month ’ s polls ( Not Exactly Virgin Soil To Plough , Apr 23 ). What ’ s more , the saffron party is facing a strong challenge even from the JD ( S ). While the Congress is boasting about its welfare schemes under CM Siddaramaiah ( accused of maintaining poor law and order ), Deve Gowda ’ s JD ( S ) is projecting farmers ’ issues , loan waivers and the Cauvery water-sharing problem as the main poll-time questions . The BJP has been harping on the issues of corruption and ‘ appeasement politics ’ in reference to the Congress ’ s proposal to recognise Lingayats as a minority religion . Karnataka seems set to get a hung assembly this time .
MARUTHANCODE G . David Milton : It ’ s a no-hol ds-barred battle . It ’ s vital for the Congress to retain power — to show that the party , at the national level , is on a comeback trail under the new president , Rahul Gandhi . For the BJP , of course , a victory in Karnataka facebook . com / Outlookindia
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