-There are large boards erected in several points of the city for the daily news to be posted. It's so neat to walk past a crowd in the morning rush who've stopped to sip their chai from the nearby cart & catch up on the news.
-Large, white Bengali government vehicle motored the side streets of the neighborhood with a speaker system calling out Puja information so that everyone who doesn't have electricity or a tv could be included in upcoming events.
-They take the first "R" of the reject, reuse, repair, recycle consumer mantra to heart. Boxes are often decorated so that you don't have to buy extra paper to give them as gifts & even if the gifts aren't boxed I've seen many Puja items handed to folks in the store bag it was purchased from...what's the sense of buying paper if it's just going to be thrown away?
-Each electrical outlet has individual switches so that current is dead to that area unless you request it...it's hard to remember at first, when we're so used to instant electricity...I'd plug in my ipad only to wake up in the morning with it still nearly out of battery power.
-Mobile phones get in the act, too. They alert their user when the battery is fully charged & request they be unplugged from the outlet to save energy!
-Life's basic inventions are used to their premium. Umbrella's make great portable shade, most containers are repurposed vs. buying new &, as I've mentioned, many appliances we take for granted - dryers, multiple kitchen gizmos - are non-existent...the wind on a roof can dry a set of sheets in about 20 minutes, faster than an energy-draining dryer!
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Location:Kol, WB
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