Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Hawa Mahal - Jaipur


A shame on people for dirtying such a marvelous monument. On one side, repair work was going on with choona being prepared and on the staircase (which every tourist has to go through to go to the upper floors) a perfect example of the irony called India. The two efforts (one to preserve and other to degrade) juxtaposed made for an interesting first example for the KIC blog.

Keep India Clean

One of the most difficult things for Indians to do is keep clean.
We can sermonize on cleansing ourselves, our body, our mind, but still we never come close to keeping our surroundings clean. Keep India Clean is an effort, proposed to be a collaborative one, where anyone and everyone is invited to post picture(s), video(s), or just a textual account about anyone anywhere not adhering to basic moral standards of trashing.
This is *not* a campaign with any motive, except that to make people aware about such things and maybe maybe maybe maybe if the culprit sees himself/herself and his/her city being documented in a negative light, they will try and curb such malpractices.

Even if you don't have photographical evidence, you are welcome to post text, for example, if you see a person throwing litter out of a car, just memorize the car number and post it. Who knows, the litterer might be an avid blogger? ;)

To contribute, you can drop me an email on varun[dot]nagpal[at]gmail[dot]com and I can either add you as an author, or add the content in a new post on your behalf.