Comments on: Filthy Indian Railways

By: stephen evans

stephen evans — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:53:33 +0000

Why cant Indians be proud and complain about the toilets if i was Indian I too would be going crazy over there state, and embarrassed in front of westerner thinking all Indians except this standard. Its not acceptable and someone should be held to account

By: titan

titan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:59:48 +0000

Its not the railways – but that its indians who are filthy.

By: KarmaDude

KarmaDude — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:57:10 +0000

@George, the post is mainly to point out lack of cleanliness and not about how luxurious or first class these toilets are. It is also not an attempt to compare against trains in other countries. I am Indian and the state of cleanliess in our trains matters to me, simple as that.

FYI, I was travelling first class AC chair car!

By: george h.

george h. — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:13:41 +0000

you´re quite wrong mate !
you have no idea how toilets eg.in russia look like.
you can´t expect 1.st class toilet, when you travel by ordinary train.
it seems you don´ t travel by train very often, or you preffer travelling in maharaja luxury coupe or a private jet.
i´m just a foreigner, but i spent 5 happy years in india,
travelling by train mostly from himachal p. to karnataka.
frankly, if you like to write something important, do it !
don´t bother public with this rubbish investigation, you just make an idiot from yourself…

By: Anirudh Bhati

Anirudh Bhati — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:12:15 +0000

Duder, I’ve seen worse. You should have put up pictures before cleaning up the shit. (pun intended)

By: mp

mp — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:39:23 +0000

My point was that if an unacceptable situation exists sometimes by giving it extensive coverage where it is a constant reminder and broadly advertised on billboards even, will force the people responsible to rectify it. It will also encourage the public not to put up with it. Hopefully more people will take a cue from your efforts and it will gain momentum. This is democracy at its best when it enlightens people of their rights and responsibilities and gives them the tools to fight for it.

By: KarmaDude

KarmaDude — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:20:33 +0000

These images are kind of post my cleaning effort, but I agree more stark images are needed to highlight the filthiness people are dealing with.

Which is why I went ahead and created the flickr group, so more of these images can come out in the open. More than shaming the people in charge, I rather they see a problem exists and solve it.

Everyone traveling by Indian trains can see it, even the authorities can, but unless they can tell what they see is a problem, a feeling of shame need not produce the right solution.

By: mp

mp — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:43:29 +0000

The “images’ that you have attached of the so called filthy toilet does not really highlight the degree of dirtiness mentioned in your article. However, I do not doubt that this deplorable condition exists. What I’m saying is that this should be dealt with much more aggressively with clear and magnified images if necessary to draw attention to it and shame the authorities into doing their jobs. India can’t even dream of becoming a global contender by just touting its 8% growth alone. There is no accountability in the public sector and it needs to change.