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Objectively speaking if they left years ago there is chance they are describing the actual availability of toilets as this was really low in some states (some s
by fsloth 3y ago
Objectively speaking if they left years ago there is chance they are describing the actual availability of toilets as this was really low in some states (some states with under 20% having access to toilets) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_ranking_by_availability_of_toilets https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_ranking_by_ava...
Afaik dealing with the shit was left to dalits, leading to their outcast status. So if one was a dalit in low-toilet-availability areas then ’shithole’ is actually a really accurate depiction of their objective experience and not a derigatory expression.
- morbidious 3y agoIf what you say is true, it was the colonizers who left us in such a state. Glad those barbarians left us.