Bindeshwar Pathak: India’s ‘Toilet Man’ who made urinating safely a reality

By Geeta Pandey and Zoya Mateen BBC News, Delhi Campaigner and social reformer Bindeshwar Pathak who died on Tuesday, aged 80, was a man who revolutionised the concept of toilets in India. In the early 1970s, he made a cheap twin-pit toilet – a design which has since been used to build clean toilets in…

Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak Condolense

The passing away of the Honourable Founder of Sulabh Sanitation, Social Reform and Human Rights Movement, Padma Bhushan Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, marks the end of an era. The era of a rise of an ordinary young man from the hinterland of India, to a profound saviour of the subaltern, subjugated and the subhumanised of the…