"Does India have toilets?" A question on Quora..

@vandana7 (98955)
India
May 22, 2018 1:06pm CST
I loved the answer of Danial Ahmed there. If you have serious doubt ..let me clarify... We do have toilets, but they stink. You would rather wear a diaper and do your thing and then change it in some five star hotel where you go for meals because that is the only place you can get decent "looking" toilets. No ..not even in hospitals. Come on...we are the closest ever to caveman culture...how about appreciating our efforts to keep such antiquities alive?
This page may be out of date. Save your draft before refreshing this page.Submit any pending changes before refreshing this page. Hide this message.QuoraA place to share knowledge and better understand the worldContinue with GoogleContinue with FacebookCon
8 people like this
8 responses
@sabtraversa (13006)
• Italy
22 May 18
Toilets are overrated. We could feed the soil with our digested food, but we make clean water dirty instead. Dirty toilets are all over the world, because some people aren't respectful enough to think of the next person who's going to visit such toilet. It sounds like they're too common over there though, especially in hospitals.
3 people like this
@vandana7 (98955)
• India
22 May 18
I haven't traveled much so I guess I am inclined to describe it as I see it. LOL. But I guess you are right...it is hard to think about the next person ..when all we need to focus is getting that thing out of our system.
2 people like this
@jstory07 (134603)
• Roseburg, Oregon
23 May 18
1 person likes this
@amadeo (111948)
• United States
22 May 18
some of the toilet there and anywhere are gross.
3 people like this
@vandana7 (98955)
• India
23 May 18
The percentage of finding a not gross toilet in India is about 1: 10 That is, 8 in nine are going to be gross. Just letting you all know so that mentally you all are prepared for it..if you all intend to travel to my country.
2 people like this
@jstory07 (134603)
• Roseburg, Oregon
23 May 18
I am not going to India any time that I know of. So thanks for sharing.
2 people like this
@vandana7 (98955)
• India
24 May 18
Aw...it was not to discourage you but to warn you. This can be shocking.
@LadyDuck (459122)
• Switzerland
23 May 18
Oh goodness, this sounds very bad. Toilets are clean here in Switzerland, when I am in Italy I go to have a cafe in a 5 star hotel and use their toilets.
1 person likes this
@vandana7 (98955)
• India
24 May 18
There should be penalties for doing it outside. Issue is also not having sufficient public toilets. It does deserve some priority.
1 person likes this
@vandana7 (98955)
• India
24 May 18
@LadyDuck Oh I wish they would do that. But most people here don't have a crime record and couldn't care less because it may be there in the record of 70 to 80 percent of men in this country.
1 person likes this
@LadyDuck (459122)
• Switzerland
24 May 18
@vandana7 In Europe you are fined if you do not use toilet to pee (imagine the rest!). In Italy it is even mentioned in your crime record.
1 person likes this
@josie_ (9763)
• Philippines
24 May 18
I still can't get out of my mind the public toilet scene in the Oscar award winning Indian film, "slum dog millionaire". But this post has provided me some insight into your PM Modi's quote, "I think toilets are more important than temples".
2 people like this
@vandana7 (98955)
• India
24 May 18
I keep wondering when Indians will learn. They watch western movies, they see the streets of the west. They find them beautiful. But back home, they want to do nothing to make our country beautiful. It is quite weird, don't you think? Modi's quote is right on two counts. In some parts of this country, women have to get up early in the mornings and do their business. Men have no shame what so ever doing it whenever and wherever.
1 person likes this
@Daelii (5619)
• United States
22 May 18
I like the motto "the only dumb question is the one unasked"... But at times.........
2 people like this
@vandana7 (98955)
• India
23 May 18
The other day while returning from somewhere, I saw a guy doing it on the side roads, and he was shaking it...that was kind of height of shamelessness. Indians don't want to learn, whether they watch the beautiful roads of foreign countries in movies, or travel abroad. Even people from African subcontinent are better behaved, if we consider developed and under developed countries.
1 person likes this
@rakski (112925)
• Philippines
24 May 18
my husband cannot go there if that is the case. how about in houses, just curious?
1 person likes this
@vandana7 (98955)
• India
24 May 18
Oh we have within the houses. But don't expect them to be sparkling because restrooms are small, and cleaning tough. Moreover, if you combine them with water you know the kind of look they acquire. You could have shower water flowing around and on the commode. Most people also use water to clean up for both number one and two.
@Daljinder (23233)
• Bangalore, India
30 May 18
I made the horrendous mistake of entering the toilet in a bus station. I still to this day regret it. Never again!!!! Better to be prepared in advance and avoid water and coke while journeying than THAT.
1 person likes this
@vandana7 (98955)
• India
30 May 18
Ha ha...that is only to be expected. Coke incidentally does not behave well in my tummy. LOL
1 person likes this