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Lindsay Pereira: Whose festival is it anyway?

<p>With political patronage and all kinds of pollution becoming the hallmark of every celebration, few look forward to festivals anymore</p>

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Every year, immersions pollute water bodies and ghats in and around the city, adversely affecting the environment too. Pic/PTI

Every year, immersions pollute water bodies and ghats in and around the city, adversely affecting the environment too. Pic/PTI

There's a small corner of the locality I live in that has been marked as the designated spot for a couple of large BMC garbage bins. It's tiled in white, presumably because white sets off the colour of garbage so much better, but the bins themselves have been moved 20 metres away to a spot where they are a hair's breadth away from being able to obstruct traffic.

The tiled area is now used as a spot where some of the local youth gather every night to discuss the weighty issues that possibly prevent them from seeking gainful employment.
The area around the bins is always overflowing with garbage but tidied up for an hour or so during major festivals because, as our antiquated government-sponsored textbooks have always taught us, cleanliness is next to godliness. The Swachh Bharat Campaign — to which you and I contribute whether we like it or not — has yet to reach my locality. Cleanliness is taken as seriously as Rahul Gandhi's attempt to be Prime Minister.

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