Indian villagers worship newly built toilets

[The Ridings of Yorkshire]

These villagers arn't "ignorant savages", this thread shows the massive inequality in India while Indian villagers shit in the river Ganges while the government thinks spaceflight is more important than basic hygeine.

[The Ridings of Yorkshire]

The author is completely misrepresenting Puja to try and make a sensationalist article and have a laugh at the "ignorant savages". Fuck that guy.

This.

The Indian government are ignorant savages to their own villagers if they don't even bother to lay down toilet infrastructure for villages while being able to go to Mars.

[Gigaverse]

Let's face it. I'm no longer baffled by this. I would like to think positively of the Indian rural folks, but they've never ceased to disappoint me one way or another.

It is highly-advised for all of us to stay away from India - especially its rural areas.

[The Ridings of Yorkshire]

Toilets are a privilege many overlook.

They clearly don't overlook toilets at all in this village.

[Imperium Sidhicum]

I'm surprised how we can consider this country a "up-coming superpower". Lack of Democracy I can understand. Lack of knowledge I can get. Lack of toilets? Just no.

Soviet Union wasn't that much different in the 1930's and '40's either, most rural residents and especially those from Central Asia being similarly unaware of proper sanitation. Certainly explains the Soviet soldiers shitting in the most inappropriate places everywhere they entered...

[Jochistan]

*Haram intensifies*

I kid of course.

But, people already explained Puja. and pointed out that the journalist is a condescending fuckhead, so yeah. What else do I say but, I hope it makes a significant difference for the better for 'em.

[Gigaverse]

Toilets are a privilege many overlook.

They clearly don't overlook toilets at all in this village.

Too much at that.

[The Ridings of Yorkshire]

I congratulate our Indian friends on implementing some old Roman ideas... more than two-millennia-old, that is.

No, seriously, good idea. Sanitation is one of the most important infrastructures, and keeping excrements out of fields and gullies is crucial for public health.

actually in the Indus city of Lothal all houses had their own private toilet connected to a covered sewer network constructed of brickwork that emptied into a network of public cesspits. Thats 3700 BC

I wish everyone had that in 2015 AD.

[Gigaverse]

actually in the Indus city of Lothal all houses had their own private toilet connected to a covered sewer network constructed of brickwork that emptied into a network of public cesspits. Thats 3700 BC

I wish everyone had that in 2015 AD.

I prefer the current toilet network, thanks.

[Jochistan]

Holy crap, missed that.

Then congratulations on implementng some even older PAKISTANI ideas.

Hindu Pakistani Ideas.

Shots fired

[The Ridings of Yorkshire]

I wish everyone had that in 2015 AD.

I prefer the current toilet network, thanks.

Too bad.

[Ethel mermania]

Toilets are worthy of worship. I am not seeing the issue here.

[Ashmoria]

http://www.planetcustodian.com/2015/10/03/7873/indian-villagers-worshiping-newly-built-toilets-instead-of-using-them.html

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims 100% success in eradication of open defecation under Sawach Bharat (Clean India) campaign. Against a target of about six million toilets in rural areas, he claims construction of about nine million in one year. The irony is, rural people in the country are worshiping these newly constructed toilets instead of using them.

One of such auspicious moments was captured on camera somewhere in India, which explains just why building millions of toilets in India can not eliminate practice of open defecation.

At one of such homes in poverty stricken rural India, residents inaugurated a newly built toilet by performing proper pooja (worship or ritual performance). The toilet seat and floor of toilet was covered with flowers, while coconut and bananas were offered to the God of toilets (if something like that exists).

A plate was placed at ground, in front of the toilet filled with a cup of sindoor (vermilion), an essential part of most of Indian religious ceremonies, and a glass full of milk as another offering. The toilet, that is nothing more than a latrine-seat, covered with discarded empty rice and wheat sacks, is decorated with garlands and mango leaves. A green ribbon waited arrival of a lucky one who was scheduled to inaugurate the toilet.

Most likely, this toilet, like millions of others which were built during the period of last 12 months, will not be used. It’s a reality and a huge obstacle for Clean India Campaign that despite availability of toilets, people, especially males, prefer to defecate in open. West mocks at India’s obsession for worshiping cows, stones and pervert self-claimed godmen, such as Assaram Bapu, who serves a prison term for rape of a minor girl studying in one of his schools. So, toilet worship shouldn’t be a surprise in rural regions where people have never seen one.

In rural India a facility like a toilet is an alien privilege. People in rural India still believe it’s an unhygienic and unholy practice to have a toilet within house premises, many others don’t know how to use and why to use toilets. A web of other cast and culture-based issues are also responsible for such attitude of people.

The government definitely needs to carry out aggressive awareness campaigns to convince them to use toilets and give up practice of unhygienic open defecation that is responsible for death of 600,000 people annually. About 620 million people defecate in open in the country. A survey conducted by the Research Institute for Compassionate Economics Sanitation Quality, Use, Access and Trends shows that out of interviewed 22,000 people in five Indian states, 40 percent of households with a working latrine have at least one member who still defecate in the open.

Another study by the BMC Public Health states,

“Strongly ingrained beliefs around impurity and pollution and the required rituals for purification and cleansing post-defecation in Indian society may play a big part in the choice to continue defecating in the open”.

Government claims of 100 percent success in building separate toilets for boys and girls in every school in India seem false. The government is only focusing on haphazard construction of toilets, and ignoring the need for educating or training people to use these toilets.

I kind of laughed (maybe in pity) because of this article and that I don't know anyone that superstitious at all in my life that I have actually met, but I need to know YOUR opinion, because it matters, on this (literal) toilet humour, so, post away! (And answer the poll!)

that's worship?

they'll get to the using it part. it takes a while for a new thing like that to take hold.

my grandmother never wanted a toilet in her house. eewwww who wants shit in the house? she used an outhouse until her son moved back in with her in the early 70s.

[European Socialist Republic]

What, a tree isn't good enough anymore? Pfft.

[The Serbian Empire]

These villagers arn't "ignorant savages", this thread shows the massive inequality in India while Indian villagers shit in the river Ganges while the government thinks spaceflight is more important than basic hygeine.

Rural India can be given toilets but 40% of the locals refuse to use them even when given a hygienic toilet. If that doesn't show ignorant in rural India, I don't know what will.

[Greed and Death]

I'm surprised how we can consider this country a "up-coming superpower". Lack of Democracy I can understand. Lack of knowledge I can get. Lack of toilets? Just no.

Toilets were not common when the US was up and coming.

[The Serbian Empire]

I'm surprised how we can consider this country a "up-coming superpower". Lack of Democracy I can understand. Lack of knowledge I can get. Lack of toilets? Just no.

Toilets were not common when the US was up and coming.

The US also didn't have more than a half billion people pooping in rivers, either. The US still doesn't have that many people.

[Purpelia]

I'm surprised how we can consider this country a "up-coming superpower". Lack of Democracy I can understand. Lack of knowledge I can get. Lack of toilets? Just no.

Toilets were not common when the US was up and coming.

The adjective Primitive is a relative one. That is to say it carries an implied "when compared to". In case of Primitive in particular the "to" is assumed to always refer to western civilization. So in order to see if a society is primitive simply compare it to something that is generally accepted not to be such as the EU.

[Epiche]

Yes I worship the toilet. By sitting on it and passing my judgement

Okay, now I'm gonna go to my toilet!

[Greed and Death]

Toilets were not common when the US was up and coming.

The adjective Primitive is a relative one. That is to say it carries an implied "when compared to". In case of Primitive in particular the "to" is assumed to always refer to western civilization. So in order to see if a society is primitive simply compare it to something that is generally accepted not to be such as the EU.

Much as the US is different from Europe (much to the disappointment to many on the left in the US), India will go on its own path and be different from the West.

[Purpelia]

Much as the US is different from Europe (much to the disappointment to many on the left in the US), India will go on its own path and be different from the West.

How does this in any way address what I said?

[Katganistan]

Funny how on a Google search, this site I never heard of before is the ONLY source for this 'news'.

I would take it with a healthy handful of bog roll.

[Risottia]

Holy crap, missed that.

Then congratulations on implementng some even older PAKISTANI ideas.

Hindu Pakistani Ideas.

Hinduism in 3700 BC? That is some 2000 years before the beginning of the Vedic era? Not quite.

[Calimera II]

Funny how on a Google search, this site I never heard of before is the ONLY source for this 'news'.

I would take it with a healthy handful of bog roll.

^This is so true.

[European Socialist Republic]

actually in the Indus city of Lothal all houses had their own private toilet connected to a covered sewer network constructed of brickwork that emptied into a network of public cesspits. Thats 3700 BC

Holy crap, missed that.

Then congratulations on implementng some even older PAKISTANI ideas.

Lothal is actually located in Gujarat, not Pakistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothal