World Bank gives a relief to India by focusing on poverty reduction

When the Narendra Modi government started building toilets for people to use, tens of thousands in India’s hinterlands were reluctant as they were used to open air defecation, the traditional way of clearing the bowels in the relative freedom of an open sky!

- BY SUSHIL KUTTY

After 11 years any last vestiges of phobia have gone down the toilet. Today, toilets are part of India’s architecture. But Pakistanis hadn't stopped ridiculing Modi’s toilets, comparing India’s toilet-count with Pakistan’s and concluding that India was a crapping joke.

They said it on television, on ‘You Tube’ videos, on TikTok and at seminars and conferences with nose in stratosphere. It was humiliating, all these Pakistanis ROFL (rolling on the floor laughing), for LoL (laughing out loud)! And they did it on the net with social media. Better-off Pakistanis taunting better-off Indians for their toilet inefficiency. Indians were the laughing stock of the toilet world and it wasn't a joke!

Now, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term and 11th year, the World Bank has put Pakistan in its proper place, which is on the commode. Firsthand proof has been delivered by a third party that the joke was on Pakistan and none the wiser! The headline 'World Bank Data On India And Pakistan Shows Massive Contrast Over Poverty' translated to a toilet can make a difference.