In other news...

A few days ago I read an article in the TOI that talked about a rehabilitation scheme for a slum which would involve use of technology, unorthodox occupation and the like.
The article ended with 'However, there are fears that this will erode the prevalent slum culture.'

Slum culture? You have got to be kidding me. I will tolerate celebrating diversity, discuss the sons-of-the-soil argument, remain sceptical about the need for Telangana but when the most widely read English daily in the world expresses sorrow for the loss of 'slum culture' I put my foot down.

Progress; or its uglier facet, globalisation, is going to eventually wipe out all traces of diversity. We will become homogeneous, something that will be necessary for our species' survival when the culmination of millennia spent desecrating nature descends upon us.

The sooner we accept this, the better.

On an unrelated topic, the Times of India washes its cars on the road in clear violation of the BMC law. Bastards.