“Calcuttans are the most shameless people, with a complete lack of civic sense,” says blogger, victorysugar. “There was a time when one was a proud Calcuttan... now I am ashamed to call myself one.” This is the opinion of one of the many residents of the city of Calcutta (Kolkata,) India, who are disappointed by its complete lack of civic sense. What is sad is that even the few who would fight for the city’s civic consciousness, are adopting a “if you can’t beat them, join them” attitude.

Today the common Calcuttan doesn’t think twice before spitting on the road or urinating on the walls of their city. A city that surpasses most in areas of literature, heritage and once - beauty, is now a city looked down upon for its complete lack of basic civic duty. The average Calcuttan will hail a cab, an auto rickshaw or a bus in the middle of the road with complete disregard for the people around him, he will push past others in a queue, he will tread on peoples toes, he will spit without worrying about who he might hit and he will even urinate in front of a strangers home, without the slightest sign of guilt, or even acknowledgement of the fact that he has done something wrong. A city where hygiene goes as far as sweeping the streets of (some of) its accumulated junk every morning, only to make place for the new lot of rubbish during the day, compliments of the “shameless Calcuttan”.