VS Naipaul has written a trilogy on India staring with the 60's and the last book placed in early 90's, reflects the changing face of India. Recommend you read all three.
Really? U mean the "area of defecation" has changed? I don't think so, let me show you some articles from your own media:
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Half of India still defecates in the open
Half of India still defecates in the open - Times Of India
NEW DELHI: Half of the country's population still defecates in the open even after
60 years of independence, the Planning Commission has admitted.
Faced with the harsh reality of open defecation by a vast majority, affecting the dignity of women and girls the most, the plan panel is revamping its strategy and is set to raise spending on government programme on sanitation and drinking water.
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Around 60 crore people defecate in the open," plan panel member Mihir Shah said, admitting to the need for a change in government's approach. The panel is of the view that toilets should be constructed for hamlets too, apart from aiming to build toilets for households. The thinking is also to build bathrooms along with toilets.
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2. Some comments:
arsh (India ) 28 mins ago (11:21AM)
CIVIC sense is
truly lacking in our country.
I've lived in Africa and let me tell you, cities
there are cleaner than in India. And I am not joking
Jose (India/Qatar)1 hr ago (10:34AM)
TOI is just
creating hate within our countrymen,it is high time TOI stop publishing
comments of hate and publish geniune comments,we all know the facts of India
and we live with the least publicinfrasturcture in the world today.
dwivedi (US)
1 hr ago (09:58AM)
peepee and poopoo
not bad thing in Hinduism, they drink pee, and do not clean after peeing. It is
in the culture of hinduism. nange hago, nange mooto, nange nahao(ghaat pe). It
is the most peculiar culture.
S. Suchindranath
Aiyer (Kalyanipuri) 1 hr ago (09:52AM)
Half the
"
Super Power", wannabe"Permanent Member" defecates in
public:
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Overview - WASH United
Lack of adequate sanitation is a huge problem in India.
626 million Indians have no access to any form of sanitation, turning India into the
"world capital of open defecation" (Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Rural Development). As a consequence, more than
1,000 children under five years of age die from preventable diarrhea every day.
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The sad thing is: Some Chinese English fan already translate the full article and comments into Chinese and post on some
Full translation into Chinese here, became a popular thread there...
^_^ And i compared the situation with what happened from Naipaul's book, on "defecation" issue, seems no big differences...