Meet Pune's Waste Warrior

This Octogenarian from Pune turns garbage into a garden. Special thanks to Seniority.in for the footage.

Transcript

00:00Thank you for joining us and we will be getting started in about a minute.

00:30What inspires me every day is that garbage is not a healthy thing to spread about and

00:40is so unhygienic that we are inviting all sorts of health problems and everything.

00:47This has to be solved one day.

00:49And it's my determination to do this.

01:04I was wondering how anybody can solve this problem.

01:08And I asked myself, how can I, what can I do about it?

01:14Then I got an answer saying, you can't do anything because you have no authority to

01:20go outside your premises and do something.

01:24So do something yourself and show the world that this is possible.

01:30So for that, I took all pains to do something for myself and started writing about it and

01:40made a slogan like this.

01:41My garbage is my responsibility, which is, I don't have to answer to anybody.

01:51I said, I have to use it in a most spiritual way.

01:55And working with the plants and working in nature is my expression of spirituality at

02:01my age.

02:02People go to pilgrimages, go to temples and all these things.

02:06I said, my spirituality is here.

02:10When I write, I feel that I am composing a prayer.

02:17And when I talk, I am saying that prayer.

02:23And when I work, I am worshipping.