India Hooked on 'Use and Throw' Culture?

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Who's bothering to run behind such thingslike a broken specs or an 'always-going-wrong' electronic gadget, inthis present busy life? Who wants to maintain old things, when you getsomething new with a little more effort, amazingly it's the new trendamong the Indian population to follow the principles of "throw it away"in whatever things they feel useless or 'no more needed' in their nearfuture. But who cares? Welcome to the Throw-Away Age!

The current "throw it away" philosophy was once seen among theelite groups in India. Now it has spread its wings to the middle classand even to the layman of our country. From a single tin can, use andthrow culture may even spread to tall buildings. Consider a computer,or even a car, once gone wrong is never going to be repaired, as a newupdated model stands best under all circumstances. Even cash has become``throw-away''. The dad who gives a couple of hundred to his son knowsthat it will be spent in an hour. The value of money is lost here, andthe child never learns the importance of hard-earned money. Even theword 'hard-earned' stands strange for him.

Do you think this is just a matter to be left alone for the sake ofsome one's sake? Then you are wrong, it is an important problem whichthe country has to face in its near future. Gone are the days ofcarefully kept antiques as it is not recommended to find a space andtime to preserve them in such a modern busy life, whatever we say, weare living in. Just look around and that is enough for us to find theresults of this modern mantra 'use and throw'. Heaps and heaps ofthrown away cans and plastic wastes are lying scattered in each nookand corner. But our busy lives are living are not even allowing us tolook around and to know what's happening around. Beware! You are notallowed to blame the foresaid 'busy-lives', if it is just a pretension.Think again. Are you so busy to identify what is really happening underyour nose? If not, it is a fact that the business you are experiencingis just not having the same meaning again. It is the imitating naturewithin ourselves trying to pretend something else, which we never are.Try to overcome this, and that is the one and only solution applicablehere.

As developed countries like the US grapple with the problem ofgarbage disposal, what is going to happen to our country with a largerpopulation, no culture of recycling and still under development? Indiais heading towards a greater problem, unless the government steps inand educates the public about garbage segregation and disposal.Dumping, a word which once applied only to garbage, now describes whatwe do with anything that is not quite up-to-date. Maybe our dailyequipments, our last year's shoes, our vehicles or even the old guys inour home are at the risk of 'Use and Throw'.