I travel to office everyday through the heart of Bangalore. Like a normal Indian metro, there are inadequate amenities provided for the general public, especially the public toilets. People love to do their stuff on the walls, wherever and whenever convenient!
The government has been very innovative nonetheless, by painting brilliant concepts on the walls. People seem to abstain from dirtying the place where they see paintings. This has given employment to the painters of yore who used to paint the banners of newly released films (claimed by Pramesh).
The shameful part is that I have noticed a parallel trend here. Since people dirty the walls, the house owners have started sticking tiles having Hindu deities on the walls. Just to keep the area cleaner. Is this the way to make use of God?? When I can notice this, why can't people see such a dastardly act?
Well! As long as the area does remain clean, what's the harm in using God for it?
ReplyDeletewe Indians like to make use of God for every wrong reason anyway, we kill in the name of god, and we are proud of it....... now let's add another category to that long list..Toilet Cleaner! Better than killing anytime! Isn't it?
It is a desperate attempt by owners to prevent people from doing it in front of their compound walls. There is a Govt school near my friend's house. There too people used to urinate. It stopped after the school authorities painted some of the tiles with religious symbols of various religions.
ReplyDeleteAnd frankly, I see nothing wrong with this!
Hmmm... Then I think we will have to agree to disagree on this. To top it all, I have seen a wall which had such tiles stuck on it, and the "rest of the desperate people" who want to dirty the wall have destroyed the tiles and started being filthy again!
ReplyDeleteWhere there's a will, there's a way! Lol
ReplyDelete@Anzil: Typical!
ReplyDelete@Siddhi: Yes, you are right that there is no point in giving importance to a portrait (as in idolatry), the reverence to God should be in the mind. But still I find that the intention to "use God" is wrong. For example, everybody respects ex-President APJ Abdul Kalam. We find his photo hanging on a wall, say in a school hall, so that young students can derive inspiration. We don't find him on the wall of the school's toilet, so that it is always clean. I feel that respect is not simply a word which can be exploited, it is a word which needs to be upheld.