Where India Goes Quotes

“The CLTS movement holds that villages can become 100 per cent open-defecation-free if social forces are used to invoke people’s disgust at open defecation and to encourage them to change together. Under CLTS, those who resist switching away from open defecation are to be shamed into compliance by their neighbours.”
― Diane Coffey, Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste

“one important limit on the pace of social progress in rural India is that higher castes are unwilling to perform traditionally untouchable work, even as more and more Dalits reject these forms of employment.”
― Diane Coffey, Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste

“India was not always an outlier in rural sanitation. There was a time when open defecation was the only thing that humans did with their faeces. Not so many decades ago, rural open defecation rates would have been high in essentially every country. India stands alone today not because it changed, but because the rest of the world did.”
― Diane Coffey, Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste