No blog about India would be complete without an observation or two about the daily living conditions here. It's not pretty.The first thing people notice about India is the huge amount of garbage that is everywhere you look. There may be a few cities that have upgraded their waste removal programs but here in Cuddapah, garbage is business as usual.
A visitor's first question is always, "Why do they just throw garbage on the ground?" Part of it is that no one has ever taught them that this is not proper sanitation. But even if they knew this was wrong, what do you do with normal household trash? There is no recycling programs, no dumps, no garbage collection, no trash cans, no street sweepers, no landfills. The animals that roam the streets (chickens, dogs, cats, rats, cows, goats and pigs), scavenge anything that is edible and the people often burn what they can. In fact, each evening, after the sun goes down, the predominant smell in the air is that of burning trash. It fills the air in city and village as people try their best to get rid of what they can. It's a sour, distasteful smell that will be hard to forget.
Until someone figures out a better way to deal with all the trash, this is how it's done in India.
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