Sasta philosophy

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

This is going to be unpopular but the comparison is unfair and the blame is misplaced.

Yes, our streets look worse. But the reason isn't just the municipality, MLA, or MP. The reason is us.

Let me explain.

Sri Lanka has a population of 2.2 crore. Thailand has 7 crore. Vietnam has 10 crore. Dubai has 35 lakh people. India has 145 crore. That's roughly 14 times Vietnam's entire population in just one of our metros.

Now think about what that means for waste. Mumbai alone generates more garbage in a day than Sri Lanka's entire capital city does in a week. Delhi produces 12,000 tonnes of waste daily. Bangalore 5,000 tonnes. Even Indore, India's cleanest city for 7 years running, handles 1,200 tonnes a day.

No municipality on earth can keep streets clean if its citizens treat the street as a dustbin.

Think about where Indian garbage actually comes from.

> The chai cup tossed on the road by the office-goer.

> The biscuit wrapper thrown out of the moving car.

> The paan masala spit on the wall by the well-dressed man.

> The construction debris dumped on the empty plot by the contractor.

> The household waste thrown out of the apartment window because "yahan toh sab karte hain."

> The plastic bottle left at the picnic spot.

> The diapers on the highway.

> The flowers in the lake.

> The wedding waste left for someone else to clean.

Every single one of these is a citizen choice. Not a municipality choice. Not an MLA decision. Not a system failure.

Compare with what happens in Singapore.

Throwing a cigarette butt is a 1,000 SGD fine, roughly Rs 62,000. Throwing chewing gum is illegal entirely. Spitting in public is a 1,000 SGD fine.

In Japan, school children are taught to clean their own classrooms. There are almost no public dustbins in Tokyo and yet the city is spotless because everyone carries their own trash home.

In Switzerland, residents sort their garbage into 7 categories. Wrong sorting attracts fines that can hit 200 EUR. Compliance is nearly 100% because the citizens see it as their responsibility.

In Dubai, a piece of trash on the floor is a 500 AED fine, roughly Rs 11,000. Spitting in public is 1,000 AED. Indians in Dubai don't litter Dubai. Same Indians in Delhi litter Delhi. Same person. Different behaviour. Why?

Because the system catches them in Dubai. In India, it doesn't. But the deeper issue is that we don't even need the system to catch us. We just need to not litter in the first place.

Indore became India's cleanest city not because their municipality is uniquely competent. It's because they spent 5 years building citizen behaviour.

> Door-to-door garbage collection at fixed times.

> Public shaming of litterers.

> Heavy fines actually enforced.

> Citizens trained to segregate.

> Public ownership of the cleanliness mission.

The municipality and citizens together transformed Indore.

Other Indian cities that have shown similar progress when citizens engaged. Surat post-1994 plague (now a top 5 clean city). Mysuru. Visakhapatnam.

Even Bhopal in patches. None of these are blessed with better politicians than Mumbai or Delhi. They just have a citizenry that decided to participate.

The harder truth is that;

> We blame the municipality for unswept streets while throwing our chai cup on them.

> We blame MLAs for traffic chaos while refusing to follow lanes.

> We blame the system for stray dogs while feeding them on the road without taking them home.

> We blame politicians for unclean temples while throwing prasad wrappers at the entrance.

You can change your MLA every 5 years. The garbage problem will still be there because the same citizens are still throwing the same trash on the same streets.

Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam are clean because their citizens accept that public spaces are shared spaces.

We treat their homes as sacred and the street as a landfill.

The municipality can sweep 100 times a day. If we throw garbage 101 times, the street is dirty.

It is 60% citizen behaviour. 30% civic infrastructure (dustbins, collection systems, sewage). Only 10% political leadership.

Most of the "scam by municipality" rage is just our discomfort with looking in the mirror.

Start with yourself. Carry your trash. Don't spit. Don't litter. Don't burn waste. Don't dump construction debris. Train your kids better than your parents trained you. Push your RWA to take cleanliness seriously. Support municipalities that fine and enforce. Pay the fine when you make a mistake.

We are 145 crore people. No municipal sweeper can save us from ourselves.

Less anger at politicians. More mirrors at home.

[Pushpendra Singh @pushpendrakum]

Unpopular Opinion 🚨: Thailand’s tourism economy would suffer badly without Indian tourists 🇮🇳✈️🇹🇭

Few people realize how much Indians spend across Thailand every year.

Bookmark this tweet.

[Pushpendra Singh @pushpendrakum]

The moment you visit countries like China, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Germany, or even cities like Dubai…

and then return to Indian streets, you realize something painful. 🇮🇳🥲

We’ve been paying taxes for years but still living with broken roads, garbage, traffic chaos, flooding, and poor infrastructure.

That’s when you understand how badly the system, municipalities, MLAs, MPs, and decades of corruption have failed ordinary Indians.

[The Bong Head @TheBongHead]

Look at the buses of Kolkata.

Pro: cheap tickets

Cons: not legal or branded buses, over-speeding and rash driving, fills with crowd like crazy.

Modernisation of public transport and infrastructure is need if the hour.

[Sasta philosophy @FunkyDoree]

@ANI does wearing too much sindoor for long periods lead to bald spots?

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Kolkata | On demolition of illegal buildings, West Bengal Minister Agnimitra Paul says, “We are identifying these kind of illegal buildings which has no record, no permission, no planning with the department. So, we are giving notices and time. If you have the document, come and give it to us… We have given notices, but we have not received any reply from them. These are completely illegal buildings… So, we have decided to go ahead with the demolition.”

[Dami’ Adenuga @DAMIADENUGA]

It has reached this level now??!😂💔😭😭 Arsenal fans please let us rest

[Sasta philosophy @FunkyDoree]

@mayukhrghosh When is BJP govt getting jobs back to Bengal?

[Mr.Page @mfc_mrpage]

Manchester City fans will be watching Pep Guardiola’s final & farewell game in charge against Aston Villa.

Liverpool fans will be watching Mohamed Salah’s emotional farewell against Brentford.

Manchester United fans will be watching Bruno Fernandes chase the assist record against Brighton.

Chelsea fans will be watching their final league game with hopes of securing qualification for UEFA Europa League.

Tottenham fans will be watching the relegation battle until the final minute.

Nobody will care about anything else the Premier League title away at Crystal Palace. Only them.

[RedboxGlobal India @REDBOXINDIA]

JEFFERIES SAYS INDIA’S SIP BOOM GAVE FPIS A MASSIVE EXIT WINDOW, PUTTING HEAVY PRESSURE ON THE RUPEE.

[👑Che_ಕೃಷ್ಣ🇮🇳💛❤️ @ChekrishnaCk]

Devendra Fadnavis doing Lavanena Bhojyam to Modi 's austerity appeal after 1 day's PR.

[Ankit Pandey @iamankitpande]

The biggest scam in India is not taxes.

Its the modern education system.

Parents spend 15 to 20 lakhs on schools and colleges just so their children can end up earning 3 LPA in corporates like TCS, Infosys, and Tech Mahindra.

Then people spend the next 10 years begging for appraisals, promotions, and switching companies just to finally reach 8 to 10 LPA.

Meanwhile, the maid working at my home earns around 55 to 60k monthly by working in multiple houses.

No college debt. No fake corporate culture. No LinkedIn cringe motivation. No pressure to look rich.

And the funniest part?

Corporate employees earning 35k monthly are buying iPhones, bikes, cars, and expensive clothes just to maintain “standards” because society treats simple living like failure.

The so called educated class is trapped in EMIs, fake status, office politics, depression, and endless rat race.

While the so called uneducated people are quietly saving money and living peacefully.

Modern education is no longer creating freedom.
Its creating well dressed salaried slaves.

[खुचरेंप @khuchrep]

2014 में भी ऐसा ही था,
2026 में भी ऐसा ही है!

फिर क्या बदला?

[sushant sareen @sushantsareen]

The American defeat and capitulation is quite spectacular. No matter what the Trump cult claims or Fox propaganda channels churn out, Iran has dictated terms, given squat in return, holds all the cards to escalate, dominates the region, the Arabs now need to kowtow for their protection, Saudis have lost their primacy, Iran having worsted the US emerges as the hero among most Muslims. Of course trump will declare victory. After getting defeated and humiliated by Iran he will act as if he is a peacemaker. He agreed to peace because he lost the war. He devastated Iran and still lost the war. In its 250 years history, Trump had led US into its greatest strategic defeat, one with the potential to unravel the empire.

[Mao Keji | मुखर्जी @kejimao]

The latest news keeps vindicating my points.

While the U.S. is losing ground to China in an expanding range of critical domains, it has built a much more lucrative business model.

It now turns to leverage allies' psychological inertia and geopolitical path-dependency to squeeze and extract them like "blood bags".

Keeping allies scared and dependent means cornering them into buying overpriced US weapons, US energy, and US technology. Unfortunately for countries like India, they have gone from being courted to being invoiced.

What turns out can be very absurd--the U.S. acts like a developing country that demands help from "a developed India". Instead of helping Make in India exports, America is extorting India to buy from it and to invest in it.

https://t.co/FGmI4RhaAX

[Manvir Bains ²⁰🏆 @MannyBLFC]

Pep Guardiola pulling up to Jürgen Klopp's villa in Majorca

[Pankaj Arora 🇮🇳 @Panks_Arora]

Every single place in India is just so overcrowded.

- Want to go to a park? Hundreds are already there, not enough space.

- Want to go to a temple? You won’t even get five minutes of peace.

- Want to visit a hill station? Not a single hotel is available.

- Same with Ladakh, Uttarakhand, and everywhere else.

It feels like the calmest place is your own house.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Saddened by the loss of lives in a mining accident in Shanxi Province in China. On behalf of the people of India, my condolences to President Xi Jinping and the people of China. May the bereaved families find strength in this tragic hour. Praying for the early and safe recovery of all remaining missing persons.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

In New Delhi, I met with Indian Prime Minister @narendramodi to underscore the importance of the U.S.-India relationship. We discussed the situation in the Middle East and U.S.-India partnership in energy, securing critical supply chains, and collaboration on emerging technologies. I was pleased to invite Prime Minister Modi to the White House on behalf of the President.

[IANS @ians_india]

Kolkata, West Bengal: BJP Leader Priyanka Tibrewal says, "If you are a nationalist Muslim, why do you have a problem with 'Jana Gana Mana' and 'Vande Mataram'? This is the same TMC government that used to talk about Bengali identity. So where was Bankim Chandra Chatterjee from, who wrote this poem? What is there to feel ashamed about in singing and saying it.."