Some of which have made me squirt coffee out of my nose first thing in the morning. So, thanks to those of you who have left me amusing comments. In this video, I share another story from my travels in India. No, but seriously…this story is the shit! Up until this moment explained in this video, I had not gotten sick during my 3 months travelling solo in India. That is until I had to take a 9-hour bus ride from Pushkar to Delhi in order to catch a flight to Thailand.

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Her debut collection of essays, The Pursuit of Every memory I have of my last trip to India, 14 years ago, revolves around smell. And the rest of it—well, the rest of it smelled like poop. People poop, cow poop, dog poop, cat poop, bull poop. We were staying with my uncle in Jammu, a middle-class area where homes are average-sized and there is electricity, but the bathroom is still separated from the rest of the home and plumbing is a luxury. It is common, then, to see people defecating in the streets, people who are extremely poor.
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Using a toilet is something most people take for granted - but about 1. Now a scheme in India is aiming to instil better toilet habits in children by "paying them to poo". Open defecation is a practice where people relieve themselves in fields, bushes, open spaces and into open bodies of water. It poses a serious threat to the health of children. Hundreds of thousands of children die every year because of diseases transmitted through human waste. In India, nearly half of the population - more than m people - relieve themselves in the open. For many it's a daily ritual and often something they do even when public facilities are available.
Half the population in India, around million people, do not yet use a toilet. Instead, they go out in the open. Read about children and cricket teaming up for a cleaner India. He wrote this while on mission in India.