Puratchiyin Niram Pachchai...!!!

Leaders of the world are screaming themselves hoarse trying to get people to be more environment friendly and there are a few kutti things that we can actually do to help the world be just that little bit cleaner and greener. 

Was getting back home in my car today...and happened to be listening to FM radio. Not my first choice of entertainment you know - but well I need to listen to something on these long journeys crawling through traffic in Singaara Chennai. So anyway, there was a break in the program (they stopped Un Mele Aasai Thaan all of a sudden) and there came this advert for SAS Paper Vazha Elai (thats SAS Paper Plaintain Leaf). Duh! Whats the big idea of buying paper vazha elai?? Get paper plates and glue them together and you have the same thing! Eating out of plantain leaves is a wonderfully eco-friendly way of living that has been handed down to us Indians for generations....so lets NOT buy this paper contraption and DO lets try and eat from plantain leaves whenever we get the chance!

Likewise...WHAT is the deal with toilet paper?? We have a LEFT hand people..which we have been taught to use! To...umm....wash our backsides after we're done with...umm...using the toilet. And I personally think doing it the old way is much more hygienic than well using paper to wipe off the goo...

And why ONLY use tissues to wipe face, sneeze, blow nose, dry tears, wipe hands...? Fashion eh? There's a thing call the handkerchief. A little piece of square, rectangular or even circular cloth that occupies pretty much the same amount of space as a tissue does. Some of them have pretty prints too and hey you can embroider your name on it - and avoid the "hey is this your tissue or mine?" problem. Sneeze into you hanky people and make sure you go home n wash it...

Again in the kitchens we have reams and reams of special cleaning paper to wipe off the counter. Request to all womenfolk - an old sheet of newspaper or that valai thuni (net cloth) that we used in the old days do as good a job as the special paper...

Idea Cellular have actually come up with a decent ad - fairly good ideas for saving paper and thereby saving some trees. However, I'd have liked to see Abhishek's face better...he is konjam cute these days! I like their e-paper idea....we're all tech savvy people here aren't we? So why not use technology to save the planet?? Bravo Idea Cellular!

So starting today lets make a couple of changes...and maybe we'll all be around to appreciate the beauty of this world a bit longer...we'll have a truly Singaara Chennai and a Khoobsurat Bharath to boot...!!