[Reader-list] Happy Sunday :) Library and Garbage bins

[Jeebesh]

Dear All,

It's Sunday morning in Delhi. It's nice and warm. The birds are  
eagerly practicing flight as the afternoon sun will start draining  
them. The ants crawl the trees in quick hope of feed. Heat will slowly  
make them much less mobile as the day progresses. Delhi summer heat  
beats down everyone. Very little insight comes of it :)

Is it possible to calm the heat down in this list? Well here is a  
suggestion.

Can we together explore two questions that can maybe give us all some  
vantage point to better understand the milieu we live in.

1) Why is there almost no public library in the cities in India?  
Simple places that one goes to read and meet people from other walks  
of life.

Was recently in Montreal and was taken to the newly built public  
library there. It has been jointly built by the municipality, the  
province and the federal funding. It is managed by an group of  
librarian and has already developed an amazing collection of books.  
It's children section was an amazing zone. The library had a sitting  
arrangement for many hundred and has wireless connectivity.

2) Why are the public garbage bin's design so unimaginative in the  
cities in India?  We keep hearing so much about enormous garbage being  
produced by our increasingly visible and affluent middle class and so  
little innovation in garbage bins. Huge fences guard the various  
localities but the garbage bins remain undesigned and overflowing.  
This is a strange anomaly.

Thought this maybe a good starting point for sunday thinking :)

warmly
Jeebesh