Toilet Talk

by Rishi Sun Oct 06, 2013 7:15 am

Can we begin, though, by asking why Ramesh did not do these things as minister in charge for sanitation? At this point I need to make a full disclosure. Ramesh is this column's bete noire. For the reason that it is this man I personally blame for starting the economic downturn by using his tenure in the Ministry of Environment to bring back the licence raj.
So busy was he stopping major projects after thousands of crore rupees had been invested in them, that he did not notice that if he had made sanitation a crusade, he could have become a national hero. His picture could have graced the doors of shiny new toilets across the land and statues of him could have sprouted out of public urinals. He may even have been remembered by those who prefer temples to toilets because our sacred rivers could have become pure again, instead of being the sewers they are mainly because sanitation is something our political leaders prefer not to discuss.

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by Merlot Daruwala Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:09 am

Bwahahaha @ "His picture could have graced the doors of shiny new toilets across the land and statues of him could have sprouted out of public urinals."

Tavleen Singh tends to be get a bit too overwrought in her rhetoric but at least on the matter of Jairam Ramesh, I agree with her. He's the chief culprit behind the regulatory logjam today, particularly in the infrastructure sector. Although he has moved on to create more havoc in a different ministry (via the new land acquisition legislation that will kill industry), his naysaying has spread down the hierarchy.

Projects worth lakhs of crores are stuck for lack of environmental clearance - roads, bridges, mines, ports, power plants and what not. And the banks that lent to these projects are now slipping into the red as a consequence. The absolute lack of leadership within the UPA has meant that there is nobody to question, leave alone push back, this babugiri.

by Seva Lamberdar Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:47 am

Merlot Daruwala wrote:Projects worth lakhs of crores are stuck for lack of environmental clearance - roads, bridges, mines, ports, power plants and what not. And the banks that lent to these projects are now slipping into the red as a consequence. The absolute lack of leadership within the UPA has meant that there is nobody to question, leave alone push back, this babugiri.

Toilets are necessary for personal and environmental cleanliness and can be supported even on the religious basis --- the Gita (Ch. 16 - V. 7), for example, makes a special mention about the need for internal and external cleanliness.

by Rishi Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:53 am

Merlot Daruwala wrote:Bwahahaha @ "His picture could have graced the doors of shiny new toilets across the land and statues of him could have sprouted out of public urinals."

Tavleen Singh tends to be get a bit too overwrought in her rhetoric but at least on the matter of Jairam Ramesh, I agree with her. He's the chief culprit behind the regulatory logjam today, particularly in the infrastructure sector. Although he has moved on to create more havoc in a different ministry (via the new land acquisition legislation that will kill industry), his naysaying has spread down the hierarchy.

Projects worth lakhs of crores are stuck for lack of environmental clearance - roads, bridges, mines, ports, power plants and what not. And the banks that lent to these projects are now slipping into the red as a consequence. The absolute lack of leadership within the UPA has meant that there is nobody to question, leave alone push back, this babugiri.

>>> That is exactly what Modi as a PM would provide: the leadership lack of which you are lamenting about.

by Merlot Daruwala Tue Oct 08, 2013 1:12 am

Rishi wrote:
Merlot Daruwala wrote:Bwahahaha @ "His picture could have graced the doors of shiny new toilets across the land and statues of him could have sprouted out of public urinals."

Tavleen Singh tends to be get a bit too overwrought in her rhetoric but at least on the matter of Jairam Ramesh, I agree with her. He's the chief culprit behind the regulatory logjam today, particularly in the infrastructure sector. Although he has moved on to create more havoc in a different ministry (via the new land acquisition legislation that will kill industry), his naysaying has spread down the hierarchy.

Projects worth lakhs of crores are stuck for lack of environmental clearance - roads, bridges, mines, ports, power plants and what not. And the banks that lent to these projects are now slipping into the red as a consequence. The absolute lack of leadership within the UPA has meant that there is nobody to question, leave alone push back, this babugiri.
>>> That is exactly what Modi as a PM would provide: the leadership lack of which you are lamenting about.

Oh yeah. That's what they said about Hitler, Mussolini and all those tinpot dictators who ruled the Basketcase Republic of Pakistan.

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