The ragpickers Chennai

If we discard soiled sanitary napkins, used diapers, glass bottles, blades.

These are the families that will have to pick then up. And handle them. This young father. And mother.

And some years later this child.

That some humans need to clean up the waste of the privileged is a cosmic crime.

While we work for a saner society.

In the meantime.

We can use cloth instead of disposable sanitary pads and diapers ? And wash it ourselves, and dry it and reuse it ? Handle our own waste instead of wanting the poor to ?

I have always used cloth, and our child also was only brought up on cloth diapers in her infancy. It's very do-able.

Regarding broken bottles and used blades at home, I still have no answer. We have a growing collection of these at home.

... posting this picture is not quite correct I am aware, and yet I am. Hoping we remember these simple people next time we reach out for a disposable sanitary pad or diaper.

And never forget.

Came out of a small eatery, and there was a thin kurathi woman with her infant child. Begging.

I gave money painfully aware that it did nothing more than dope my conscience and pain briefly.

But many others coming out of there passed by her not even making that minute gesture.

Daughter explained, "They just dont see her."

I said, "But shes right there."

She answered, "They dont see her, they dont look into her eyes. They just see the phrase in their heads, 'Begging should not be encouraged.' And move away peacefully. "