Let’s complain about…?
This was once a beautiful building. For almost two years now, it is a dumping ground.
This is a monsoon destroyed. Would you credit people from this building when they talk about societal problems?
People are living in this building with feces, rats and mosquitoes. They mind it and do nothing about it. This story and its events are just a representation of the inertia that afflicts Indian society.
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