Saturday, November 19, 2011

"Ugly Indians" clean up Bangalore...

On a warm, sunny Saturday morning this month, about a hundred men and women gathered on Church Street in the heart of Bangalore. Dressed in white T-shirts, plastic gloves and masks that concealed their identity, they held brooms, mops and small buckets of paint. The group set out to clean the major roads of Bangalore, wielding placards that read “Kaam chalu, mooh bandh” (speak less, work more).

The group, known as The Ugly Indian, describes itself as a “faceless, leaderless” volunteer organization. Formed a year ago to clean areas around Brigade and MG roads in Bangalore, it uses Facebook and its own website to attract new members and has organized 104 cleanup drives so far.

“We are media-shy and prefer if our work does the talking,” said a reply to an e-mail requesting an interview. One of the volunteers on this month’s drive, who did not want to be identified, said “We have no physical existence. We don’t need an office, because our work is mainly on the streets.” Full story...

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