For How Long?
I went to Chelela Pass at above 3800 kilometres - the highest point on the Dantak Road, or as the signboard says - to hoist some flags with my colleagues. After reaching there, I found a latrine near the road. When I went to use it, I noticed that the water in the bucket had frozen solid. The toilet pot was one installed by Chablop Passu. Therefore, it had a sign saying "Doesn't take much to keep it clean. Just aim in the hole, and cover with sawdust after use." Below the useful information, someone had written with a marker, "No Sawdust Passu." Now, this could have been an attempt at humour, as dry as the non-existent sawdust. But it still raises the question. Just how much has to be done for the people? People such as Chablop Passu are working on serving the country. No, serving the people who live in the country. And we have amateur graffiti "artists" who scribble such words on the walls of washrooms in the mountains. Does this mean that they not ...