The "Green Revolution"

"Give a dog a bad name and hang it" goes the proverb. I am somewhat guilty of the same vis a vis our ruling party. Let me tell you how. Before they came into power, I was seriously concerned about it being a party full of misogynists - remember a group which attacked women at a house party, which claimed links with our "Maaibaap"? I was seriously worried about what the status of women would be after they came to power. I was also unnecessarily skeptical about their promises and thought they would just be the proverbial "old wine in a new bottle".

I really need not have worried. Indeed, I should not have been so quick to judge. Now which party has done so much good to womankind, in fact tilted the socio-economic balance in favour of women? Just think, we did not have enough toilets for women in the country when a woman (at least de facto) was at the helm . Now we have a party which promised to provide toilets for women all over the place. Did they? I would not know.

One thing I certainly know for sure. They believe "if you can't provide cake to the hoi polloi, don't eat any yourself either". So a prominent male member of the party has taken to experiencing first hand what life for the other gender must be like - he too does without a toilet. Not only women, he also shows solidarity with patients who need to use containers instead of toilets.

Then he does a tremendous service to our ecology by recycling it - he uses it to feed to the plants. The nitrogen rich stuff enhances growth of plants, so much so that visitors envy their gardens! Our very own Minister for Transport has taken to collecting his own urine in a 50 liter can and then using it to water his plants.

Now just think of that. Just one big 50 liter can instead of multiple little cans. That means less of plastic stuff floating around and more stuff floating around in plastic, both of which is put to use. Only wonder, 50 liters per day????? Or should that read how many days per can? Or does the entire family express solidarity with the masses?

Consider other ways in which he is doing a great service to this country. As it is, people don't particularly like using toilets. So instead of wasting money or depriving people of their democratic rights by lining streets with toilets at regular intervals, what if cans were left at convenient spots? The roads would not smell either.

Water shortage affecting agriculture would soon become a tale of the past. Just let the great Indian public loose on farms and we would soon have a new version of the green revolution.

Not to forget, he needs to be lauded for carrying forward the legacy of a previous PM who advocated the health benefits of drinking one's own urine ..... he has gone one step further and decided to share the benfits of this practice with plants too - the plants apparently are healthier and grow to about 1.5X the size. Morarji bhai amar rahe! You have not been forgotten.

 

They certainly will be doing a great service to the environment and to the cause of greening it, Butterflyice!:-D

 

Haha Balajee. See one more saving for our "Maaibaap's" kitty. No more agricultural subsidies required. No electricity required to pump water to the farms. In fact darkness would be more advantageous from the point of view of logistics. I was also wondering whether the stench would reduce if the stuff was really used as manure. I mean, when one composts, the decaying matter does not smell at all! So the entire country could smell of fresh earth.

On a more serious note, I am not so sure his claim holds true because the quantity of urea or nitrogenous stuff in the waste might be too much for the plant to handle.

 

Kamalji, the sugarcane might taste sweeter having benefited from all the extra nitrogen it gets. The salt might be bioprocessed to sugar!

 

After all the promises to build more toilets, doesn't this sound like a ruse not to build them?