Last evening, I was going through an article in USA Today’s website about an agreement between US and India on climate change. I read a comment of one of the readers of that article (who obviously is a US citizen), and came to know the fact of their thoughts about India - which he describes as follows:
“India has over 325 million people who do not have access to sanitary facilities. For these 325 million people any spot of land may be their toilet. India cannot even provide sanitary facilities for a huge number of their own people and we want them to use more expensive fuels and buy pollution control equipment so it does not affect our air? When they have 325 million people spreading human sewage across the land they live on every day I would think building sanitary facilities would be a higher priority than addressing the possibility of global warming. Building sanitary facilities would employ a lot of workers too, just one concern, someone has to pay the workers and buy all materials and maintain the system. The lack of sanitary conditions there and many other locations could lead to a pandemic that could kill millions of people around the world.”
Link to the original article is here
Comments like above really confuse me in believing about India’s true progress. That really puts a question mark on my belief regarding the image of India in the eyes of the world as well. As far as above article is concerned, I believe that movies like Slumdog Millionaire are backing their such imaginations pictured for our country. Sometimes, I think, are three Oscars proving to be too expensive for us?
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