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Organic 'stench'

'A war of words erupts because vegetable peels and shavings are collected', says the author

Organic vegetables. Representational image. Photo courtesy: yourstory.com
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Organic vegetables. Representational image. Photo courtesy: yourstory.com

Kishore Singh
My wife’s new heroes are the ladies of various kitchen garden associations who go around collecting wet garbage from disposal centres, defying the very logic for which they were created. Thursday morning, as I drove to the airport, an overpowering whiff of pineapples emanated from the car, forcing me to throw open the windows. The chauffeur explained that the offensive smell came from a carton of pineapple peels my wife had insisted a roadside vendor give her instead of throwing away, to be turned into compost. Left to rot overnight in the boot, it was merely an example of our
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