slums: To pee is to be

That’s what we are, Hoo Ha India, superpower nuclear India, floating on 
public spectacles of yellow swimming pools of male piss, with condemned 
rivers of chemicalised filth and tonnes of garbage scattered like 
testimonies of greatness

Amit Sengupta Delhi

So what was wrong when a Dutch embassy official said that Delhi looks 
like a garbage dump? Why did our patriotic instincts get so aroused that 
we almost condemned this frank, free speech? Delhi is a 
non-biodegradable, backward capitalist, semi-feudal, patriarchal, 
uncultured garbage dump, why shy away from that? Not only that, Delhi 
has turned into a vast, sprawling, ever, macho public urinal, a shit 
hole, a faceless ghetto, an architect’s black-hole nemesis, an octopus 
without a soul or belonging or sensitivity or civic sense. So what is so 
Mera Bharat Mahan about Delhi being a damned garbage dump? Can’t you see 
it all over the place, from the posh, palatial south zones to the 
twilight zones of the east and west, with the demolished slums in 
between? Surely, even tinted windows of swanky cars are transparent, 
aren’t they? So why hide the gaze?

cont'd....
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/portal/2006/11/651