Quotation for Today, Thursday 23 September

”How can you suggest that ‘hygiene’ in Australia or England means exactly what it is — cleanliness — and in India it means squalor and filth?…even we ‘unhygienic Indians’ do not tolerate dog shit in our rooms and beds, paan spit on our walls and people urinating in our lawns,” wrote a blogger.

From Times of India article on reaction to statement by Lalit Bhanot of Delhi games organising committee that western countries were too demanding over hygiene