Sri Lanka has much to teach India about civic sense

• I asked a young Sri Lankan journalist who had studied at Delhi University what the most obvious differences she noted when she came home.

• Taking the train from Colombo to the North, I noticed that the track was not disfigured by the filthy mounds of plastic and other garbage that railway passengers see as they pass through Delhi and its outskirts.

• In the ancient city of Anuradhapura, the capital of Sri Lanka for 1,400 years, I saw the pilgrims visiting the massive stupas routinely put their litter in the plastic tubs designed for that purpose.

• In his majestic History of Sri Lanka KM de Silva wrote of an impulse to social welfare, which must surely be prompted by civic sense.

• Sri Lanka suggests to me that the prime minister will not fulfil his social reform programme unless he can instill more civic sense in Indians.

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