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What rubbish is this?

Heaps of garbage and trash have become a way of life in India

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Anjuli Bhargava
For the last few weeks, I have had one thing on my mind: garbage. I mean, pure trash. Why, you may ask. Have I nothing better to think about?

Quite frankly, no. One, I went on a drive out of the National Capital Region and as you get out of the city, one cannot help but notice the deterioration in the sanitary conditions as one makes one’s way through small towns in — ahem, charming — Uttar Pradesh. What is it with this state and its squalor levels? Along the highways, especially as you go through small towns like Moradabad, Najibabad,
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