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Plastic menace
The flash floods of this year have indeed forced us to ponder about plastic menace and the imminent dangers it poses for our coming generations.
No doubt, plastic bags and the like gave our daily shopping a major boost owing to its non-soaking nature and durability. And its use grew by leaps and bounds with every passing day. But it is time for all of us to realise that it is going to give all of us a major headache and pose health risks unheard of before. Most of the river beds, our natural water bodies, drains, oceans have plastics that do not decompose, thereby suffocating the entire passage. And our people do not seem to have the scantiest regard while throwing plastic bottles or the like. The solution perhaps lies in discontinuing the use of plastics altogether and this can only be done by putting a full stop at the manufacturing units itself. The engaged plastic units can be given an alternative to make plastics that can be used in road construction etc. One step can pave way for further solutions to this ever-increasing menace.
Purabi Pathak Barua,
Guwahati.
Spitting
the roads red
Spitting in public is still considered a general norm in India, especially when it comes to male dominance in this practice. As much as this issue sounds subtle, it is absolutely not. The action of spitting recklessly on public space reflects people's general negligence of cleanliness and hygiene ethics. No doubt consumption of betel nut has been an age-old practice in Indian culture but people must know the right occasion to consume it.
Even in Guwahati, no freshly-painted walls or newly-laid roads can remain spotless for long before people spit betel nut juice or gutka juice on them. These scenes are not only unpleasant to the eye but also reports have shown that spitting can raise the possibility of transmitting diseases. Even deadly diseases like COVID-19 can possibly be transmitted through spitting. Consumption of tobacco products should be banned in public places to maintain cleanliness of public properties.
Anti-spitting law has been implemented in India recently. However, ironically it has still not been enforced. Through this letter I would like to request the authorities concerned to take adequate measures and to strictly enforce the anti-spitting law.
Anjaali Daan Swrang
Cotton University
Crocodile's tears
After lying low for some time after his political misadventures in State politics as the APCC chief, Ripun Borah is now taking political asylum in the TMC under Mamata Banerjee aka Didi. Recently, it was rather an eerie as well as a comic sight to see Ripun Borah holding a TMC flag protesting against the State Government's hospitality to some Shiv Sena MLAs in a luxury hotel in the city. He was very critical particularly against our CM for neglecting his flood-relief duties to the flood victims while entertaining his guests from Maharashtra. We all know Ripun Borah's party chief Mamata Banerjee's love and affection for the people of Assam when she brazenly gave shelter to one TMC goon, named Garga Chatterjee from being arrested by Assam Police for passing derogatory remarks against Swargadeo Chaulung Sukapha. What about TMC's contributions towards Assam flood victims so far? Does Ripun Bora have any iota of knowledge in this regard? Shedding crocodile's tears for a natural calamity like flood by likes of merciless opportunists Mamata Banerjee and Co will never fool us. Borah looked and behaved like a jester while holding the protest rally.
One who lives in a glass house is not supposed throw stones at others.
Lanu Dutt Chowdhury,
Guwahati.