u/kafkaoevsky

Falasteenas thaizov duahan manz yaad 🫶🍉

Right at the very entrance of our lane, there is a word painted in huge, clear graffiti for everyone to see: (Hut!y@
It is the absolute first thing you see when you enter our neighborhood. It instantly makes you feel disgusted, ruins the dignity of the entire lane, and makes you feel ashamed of the place you live in. The worst part is that the people doing this are local kids, all under 18.
What breaks my heart and makes me deeply furious is the absolute silence of the society around me. There are easily 200 to 300 people living in this neighborhood. We have elders, we have a Mohalla Committee, and I even have my own family living here. For a very long time, I waited. I stayed quiet because I thought surely some elder, some responsible member of the community, or the neighborhood committee would look at this shameful word and do something about it.
But nobody did. Nobody ever dared to say a single thing. Everyone just lowers their heads, walks past it, and accepts it. It is incredibly isolating to realize that I am the only person in this entire neighborhood who actually cares about the environment we are raising our families in. It is deeply shameful that our society has become so indifferent that they are perfectly okay with living alongside this vulgarity.
I refused to accept this silence, so I decided to take it up officially. I wanted the authorities or the police to step in because these minor kids need a real, formal warning that a neighbor's paint job just can't give them. Moreover, when I raised the complaint with the DC office, they were genuinely supportive and wanted to help, but we hit a roadblock because the local authorities haven't clearly specified whether our boundary falls under the rural or urban municipal zone.
I am writing this because even a small lane deserves the same social dignity as a main city. If our own people and committees choose to look away from open vulgarity, how do we make the system listen and help us fix our society from the roots?

Right at the very entrance of our lane, there is a word painted in huge, clear graffiti for everyone to see: (HuT!y@
It is the absolute first thing you see when you enter our neighborhood. It instantly makes you feel disgusted, ruins the dignity of the entire lane, and makes you feel ashamed of the place you live in. The worst part is that the people doing this are local kids, all under 18.
What breaks my heart and makes me deeply furious is the absolute silence of the society around me. There are easily 200 to 300 people living in this neighborhood. We have elders, we have a Mohalla Committee, and I even have my own family living here. For a very long time, I waited. I stayed quiet because I thought surely some elder, some responsible member of the community, or the neighborhood committee would look at this shameful word and do something about it.
But nobody did. Nobody ever dared to say a single thing. Everyone just lowers their heads, walks past it, and accepts it. It is incredibly isolating to realize that I am the only person in this entire neighborhood who actually cares about the environment we are raising our families in. It is deeply shameful that our society has become so indifferent that they are perfectly okay with living alongside this vulgarity.
I refused to accept this silence, so I decided to take it up officially. I wanted the authorities or the police to step in because these minor kids need a real, formal warning that a neighbor's paint job just can't give them. Moreover, when I raised the complaint with the DC office, they were genuinely supportive and wanted to help, but we hit a roadblock because the local authorities haven't clearly specified whether our boundary falls under the rural or urban municipal zone.
I am writing this because even a small lane deserves the same social dignity as a main city. If our own people and committees choose to look away from open vulgarity, how do we make the system listen and help us fix our society from the roots?