To Pee or Not to Pee....

Paan-spit-spray paint adorns our country's walls..

Human wastes splattered over all railings - as our folks attend to the Nature's call....

An obsessive cleanliness within the sanctity of our own homes...

But whats with us spitting, urinating or trashing (as if its our constitutional right), the moment we step out of our doors?

Money, power?

Status, Prowess?

Wealth, poverty?

The rich in his Merc as well as the slum dweller in his rags, each is equally guilty...!

Is it lack of basic amenities, facilities of sanitation?

Or the ''Most credible given explanation'' is ''oh. its rapid urbanization!''..??

Traditionally, personal hygiene had ''caste'' considerations for ''optimum social-economic functioning''..

But today, all religions spit equally and all castes spit without bias...

As Historian William Darlymple rightly says,'' India taught the English everything about personal hygiene. Before they came to India, the British bathed once a year...''

How strange has then been this role-reversal for weren't we once champions of Holy baths, Ash-dips and spiritual cleansing?

Has the imperialist-colonialist ''coming'' attributed to our own cultural failing?

Can roping in of our Ace Aamir Khan by the Ministry of Tourism to extol cleanliness virtues on Ad-campaigns resolve the eternal ''Hamlet-like'' dilemma of ''To Pee or Not to Pee''??

Looks like we'll have to just wait and see....;)