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The Problem behind the Problem

  I’ve been thinking about this for a while — why do we talk about littering in India like it’s only a behavior problem? Every time the topic comes up, people say things like “we need awareness” or “we need better technology.” But when I look around, it doesn’t feel like a lack of awareness. It feels like something deeper, something that runs through the system itself. The solution to India's littering  problem is not fancy technology.  You can introduce as much technology as  you want in India, but you will not  solve the littering problem unless you  solve the deeper issue, the root cause  of the problem. See, in India there's  a huge gigantic problem.  What is that problem? It's what nobody  wants to speak about.  You will have government servants with a  salary of 30,000-40,000 rupees a month, 3-4  lakhs rupees a year who own  huge bungalows. Everyone knows that  right? You have all these public works  t...