Patna and its garbage: and its two highly avoidable routines! As far as garbage collection in Patna is concerned, we seem to follow two distinct and highly avoidable routines! First, the municipal workers turn up and start clearing the drains. They empty all the garbage and arrange piles on both sides of the road. A stranger might think, more action will follow in the hours to come as municipal vehicles carry the piles away. But the local residents know better – the stinking piles stay put firmly, before drying up in the sun and floating up in the air. The dirt slowly makes its way back...