Shillong, Oct. 1 -- The customary cleaning drive on Gandhi Jayanti this year is going to be a national issue as it coincide with 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Besides, the second stage of Swachh Bharat Mission has now been renamed as Swasth (healthy) Bharat- an awakened society as a prelude to clean living is even more of a far-fetched dream in the case of India because the notion of sanitation is burdened with the unique challenge of social prejudice.

Across the nation, cleaning drives are aimed at cleaning up the nation, but according to a book 'Wasted: The Messy Story of Sanitation in India, A Manifesto for Change' (Pan McMillan) by Management Consultant Ankur Bisen who has thought and researched about India's sanitation ...