> redpill me on indian sanitation     as with everything else here, it varies hugely from place to place. the northern plains are hugely culturally and politically influential and also in general quite backward. the rest of the country has been pouring money towards them for some decades now but when you have 1.5 billion people and a "religion" that has no rules you have to let the cow fetishists do what they want.  in ancient tradition, dried cow manure was used as a cooking fuel in places that lacked firewood (most of the northern plains, in other words). that's also where mainstream hinduism was defined even though it's inherently non-dogmatic so the cultural practices from that place including using dried cow manure for cooking, as a coating for walls and as an insecticide   ung#religious_uses the "indians throw corpses into the river" is about as true as "chinese eat cockroaches" and "chinese cook in gutter oil" or "russians don't have toilets"  i've personally cremated 3 of my elders and a portion of the ashes and bone shards are ritually immersed, in the sea (where i come from), sometimes in rivers.  having said that, to say that india is a superpower is a joke. we have massive problems -- the scale of some of which i don't think its easy to imagine for outsiders -- which we are slowly resolving.  despite all that, i'm very glad i didn't get lured by money and take up offers to move to the us in the early 00s. i would say i have a very good quality of life and i love travelling but don't want to move anywhere else.  a very small percentage of indians go abroad but in absolute numbers they are easily enough to be noticeable in just about any country.
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