Slum= a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people/ a house or building unfit for human habitation.
This is the meaning of the term "slum", as defined by the dictionary. Many a times, I did pass through a few slums back home, thinking how poverty forces people to live in such places. Never did I imagine in my worst nightmares that I would end up in one, thousands of miles away from home.
Boldly marked as 'Varsity Manor', it houses 36 apartments. Looks decent from a distance, but you've got to step in to see why I hate this place so much. 'Dustbins' are dumped with thrash; cigarette butts- a zillion of them all over, fast food packages thrown just beside the dustbin and glued rat traps with dead rats thrown on the staircase! Recently I had the opportunity to witness a girl dropping such a rat trap from the third floor, simply onto the walkway!!! I am not sure how each of them maintain the interiors of each apartments, but you'll always find roaches and rodents for company!
This place is often called as "Where the Indians/Andhrites stay". So, as defined in the beginning, if illiterate, uncivilized people live in a slum, what do you call a place with Highly educated, civilized people? Should the university introduce neatness, cleanliness and hygiene as courses for we Indians?
Or simply change the name to "Varsity Basti"?
Note- Dear residents, no hard feelings; this is my say.
This is the meaning of the term "slum", as defined by the dictionary. Many a times, I did pass through a few slums back home, thinking how poverty forces people to live in such places. Never did I imagine in my worst nightmares that I would end up in one, thousands of miles away from home.
Boldly marked as 'Varsity Manor', it houses 36 apartments. Looks decent from a distance, but you've got to step in to see why I hate this place so much. 'Dustbins' are dumped with thrash; cigarette butts- a zillion of them all over, fast food packages thrown just beside the dustbin and glued rat traps with dead rats thrown on the staircase! Recently I had the opportunity to witness a girl dropping such a rat trap from the third floor, simply onto the walkway!!! I am not sure how each of them maintain the interiors of each apartments, but you'll always find roaches and rodents for company!
This place is often called as "Where the Indians/Andhrites stay". So, as defined in the beginning, if illiterate, uncivilized people live in a slum, what do you call a place with Highly educated, civilized people? Should the university introduce neatness, cleanliness and hygiene as courses for we Indians?
Or simply change the name to "Varsity Basti"?
Note- Dear residents, no hard feelings; this is my say.
Tomorrow when you go miles ahead and look back this basti will be one of the catalyst that fueled you to go so many miles ahead...so understand it, respect it, coz tomorrow when you look back you may not want to feel guilty that you misunderstood it....
ReplyDeleteBro, that was inspiring, but damn!! it's so difficult to swallow that fact in the first place and digest the same later!
ReplyDeletemama i truly agree with mrinal..
ReplyDeletedude there r many +ve thing of that basti, just carry the good ones..