Pot-bellied policemen in Delhi have been warned: get back in shape either by dancing bhangra or going to the gym, or face penalties. And in my town a lot of shopkeepers are telling me that they can't give out the wafer thin plastic 'carry bags' (what a silly name!) any more, now that the municipal authorities have seriously cracked down on this particular form of customer addiction...
At least some people in this country are bothering about some of the worst aspects of our culture. I'll keep my eyes on the news, because another aspect of the same culture is that most of our many enthusiasms are notoriously short-lived! Remember the 'anti-corruption' circus?
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Before reading the newspaper article I was quite sure that the bhangra bit was something you'd come up with...
Haha about 'carry bags'. But I remember vaguely that the thin white plastic bags weren't being used for sometime in the middle, although they had those black plastic bags. I used to take a collection of thole-s and jute bags to do groceries if I remember right or maybe it's just my fond imagination.
Here, I almost never remember to take my own bags and if I do I leave them in the car and merrily skip in, and remember at the counter that I carefully left the cloth bags sitting on the seat looking out of the window, maybe.
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