Sanitation and Health Rights in India (YC W16 Nonprofit)
This is such an incredibly sad Country. My wife is Indian, from Noida, we went there two years ago. I saw much of Delhi. The amount of pollution, poverty, filth, homelessness including children that are begging in the streets hooked on who knows what drugs and being molested and raped is staggering.<p>I remember one little girl maybe 10 that came up to my wife and I because she saw my wife using a small travel bottle of hand sanitizer. And she really wanted it. Didn&#x27;t ask for money just that little bottle of hand sanitizer. She thought it was lotion. We gave it to her and she tried to use it like lotion on her arms and hands. She just wanted to be a little girl doing little girl things. She was covered in dirt, hadn&#x27;t bathed in who knows how long.<p>It&#x27;s effing heart breaking there. I mean that. Women are constantly harassed at best, gang raped at worse. They can&#x27;t go out after dark in most of the country. Indian male society HATES women. It&#x27;s literally one step away from the Taliban. 
Not all Indian men, but its a majority. Women are not safe there at all. The police are lazy and useless. Corruption is rampant. Everyone is out for themselves. It&#x27;s dog eat dog.
Rolling blackouts. Unfit water supply. No proper sewage. Appalling infastructure. The country was in better shape under British rule. And that PAINS me to say that being Irish in blood. The Indian government has just failed the people. 
They are xenophobic when it comes to business. State run monopolies or family owned monopolies large and small. Very very hard for non Indian controlled capitalism to get in there.<p>It is just such an depressing place. Which is incredibly sad because it has so much beauty and history and culture and food! I don&#x27;t know what happened to that place. You go from the Karma sutra, an epic depiction of the love of women to gang raping women on a daily basis. WTF?<p>Ugh, it&#x27;s just sad.