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Yes and no to the point on 'guys were cleaning up'. Yes, such a travesty did and worse in some places exists still. However, when the practice of relieving one

Yes and no to the point on 'guys were cleaning up'. Yes, such a travesty did and worse in some places exists still. However, when the practice of relieving oneself in an area designated for that purpose outside the village for public in general, there was no one cleaning it up, it was left to nature. Ironicaly, The job of toilet cleaning started to exist only when the toilets moved closer and closer to home. No, we still do not clean up after us and even today whether we like it or not there are still people in all countries throughout the world who are engaged in the waste disposal industry. Guys who collect garbage at your home every morning, still don't really enjoy it whether they come walking, on tri-cycle or in a ultra modern garbage truck and it is the practice in the best of societies today. Collecting decomposing organic waste of any nature is bad experience for anyone.

kamaal 12y ago
Frankly speaking the problems with that of the lower caste are incomparable with those of Garbage picking personnel today. I'm not saying its an easy task, but there is an economic incentive attached to that today. Garbage pickup in any Indian Metro today is contracted and billed at a reasonable price. There is also a huge incentive to collect stuff plastic, or broken stuff and sell it to recyclers. If I'm not wrong picking up industrial waste for a price is one of the most profitable businesses of the day. As far as I know 'Gujri'[Dump yards] millionaires exist in a city like Bangalore. But its nothing like what the poor souls suffered in the past. Where they were condemned to do it, because they were thought to be born into it. Being denied the right to share the same space with other 'higher castes', not allowed to study, or even at times denied to walk on the same roads as higher castes did, or untouchability. Compare this to the situation today, where in a city like Bangalore the contractors just refuse to pick up the garbage when they are not paid, and your roads will just overflow with filth. This kind of at-will denial of service wouldn't have been imaginable to the lower castes in the past.

kamaal 12y ago

Frankly speaking the problems with that of the lower caste are incomparable with those of Garbage picking personnel today. I'm not saying its an easy task, but there is an economic incentive attached to that today. Garbage pickup in any Indian Metro today is contracted and billed at a reasonable price. There is also a huge incentive to collect stuff plastic, or broken stuff and sell it to recyclers. If I'm not wrong picking up industrial waste for a price is one of the most profitable businesses of the day. As far as I know 'Gujri'[Dump yards] millionaires exist in a city like Bangalore. But its nothing like what the poor souls suffered in the past. Where they were condemned to do it, because they were thought to be born into it. Being denied the right to share the same space with other 'higher castes', not allowed to study, or even at times denied to walk on the same roads as higher castes did, or untouchability. Compare this to the situation today, where in a city like Bangalore the contractors just refuse to pick up the garbage when they are not paid, and your roads will just overflow with filth. This kind of at-will denial of service wouldn't have been imaginable to the lower castes in the past.