Toilet Trouble
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Nearly 1.4 billion people worldwide lack access to toilets. Can innovation solve the problem?
In 60 high-burden countries, researchers are experimenting with collection liners, dry toilets and converting faeces to fertilisers.
Inga Vesper
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Delhi restaurants will open their toilets to public, but will everyone feel bold enough to use them?
Some fear that poorer people will be hesitant about entering these establishments.
Abhishek Dey
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At Rs 5, toilets in South Delhi’s restaurants will soon be open to the public
The local civic body initiative will allow people access to 3,500 to 4,000 more toilets from April 1.
Scroll Staff
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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‘What does it take / to let go?’: There’s a new anthology of English haikus written by Indian poets
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Congress moves Madras HC seeking Election Commission action against Modi for propagating hate speech
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Japanese toilets are set to become a lot easier to use and ‘tourist-friendly’
The confusing pictograms used in buttons in the bathrooms will be replaced with symbols that are used worldwide and easier to understand.
Scroll Staff
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Swachh Bharat: The same five states continue to fare worst in sanitation
No more than 23% households in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Jharkhand use toilets.
Prachi Salve, IndiaSpend.com
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Residents of Bangladesh's wetlands are using floating toilets to end open defecation
In these areas, land is under water for up to six months and modern sanitation techniques are not used.
Pinaki Roy
Video
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‘Hind’s Hall’: Rapper Macklemore releases poignant song in support of Palestine, US campus protests
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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Watch: An Australian politician says India-style squat toilets threaten the country's way of life
It's not a joke.
Scroll Staff
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How did public bathrooms get to be separated by gender in the first place?
It wasn’t even until the late 19th century that this was codified into law.
Nauro Campos, The Conversation
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How Sikkim built toilets for all – and why the rest of India is struggling to catch up
A cultural aversion to toilets is among the biggest hurdles to 100% sanitation.
Aarefa Johari
The Reel
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Watch: Politics, ambition and crime in Vasantha Balan’s ‘Thalaimai Seyalagam’
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How the fantasy film ‘Pathala Bhairavi’ heavily influenced Telugu cinema
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Watch: Manoj Bajpayee’s hundredth movie ‘Bhaiyya Ji’ is a revenge drama
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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How actor Shahana Goswami flies under the radar and above the competition