Villagers

The Sadhvi is from village, she is new. She does not know how to talk.

So does it mean villages are not cultured at all?

Let me just give you an example of how villagers handle things. We have been hearing all these stories about Bangalore garbage handling fiasco. How about villagers? What do they do with their garbage?

My example is from our village in interior Karnataka. I am sure many of the villages would follow similar approaches.

All the kitchen waste is fed to the cattle including water used to wash rice and vegetable skins, left over butter milk etc. The left over food is put in the "gobbara gundi" - a pit where leaves and cow dung and other things are put to produce bio fertilizers to be used in the fields.

What about plastic? How do they dispose plastic? They do not. First of all, their only time-pass is not shopping, as they hardly get any time from their work (and I am talking about women here). So they do not collect so many plastic bags. What ever plastic bags they collect, they keep it safely and reuse it. And paper waste, coconut shells etc are used in the bathroom wood stove to heat water.

What about bathroom and toilet waters? The water used for bathing, washing etc is passed to the coconut plants or kitchen garden. The toilet waste is passed to pit in the ground.

So they keep their houses and roads clean and they do not export their garbage to others.

So do you call it ignorance or intelligence or just stinginess?

Do not call some one unintelligent just because he/she is a villager. They might not have won noble prizes and they might not be earning in lakhs. But they know how to live and let others live.