Guilty conscience and littered town!

[Anirban Halder]

Some people (not everyone) don't like to dispose broken idols or damaged god/goddesses photos etc in usual trash when they dispose them for whatever reasons. They even don't throw calendars with God's photo, into trash.
So they leave them in and around temples, typically under a large tree. They feel good that they didn't dispose god's photo in trash. But such areas around temple look like trash!!

[Frank Fremerey]

beautiful litter litterally

[Anirban Halder]

beautiful litter litterally

They look beautiful because I didn't use an ultra-wide angle. 

**NG Admins: can you please move this thread to "People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes"? My intention was to post it there. Sorry about that.

[Akira]

This is an interesting but well understandable practice, Anirban.  Thanks for sharing.

In Japan, we would take these things to temples or shrines where they have special places to burn them: they will be sent back to the heaven along with the ascending fire and smoke.

[Anirban Halder]

Thanks for stopping by Akira. Yes, having a special place to burn them makes so much more sense. In India, there is also custom of throwing idols in water bodies like lakes or rivers or oceans (which ends up polluting the waters, causes harm to water-life from the paints/chemicals from the idols). During large festivals, government designates a specific area in those waterbodies (sometimes creates an artificial ones) where everyone throws their idols and govt. immediately removes them from water to dispose them somewhere else.

[Alex Cejka]

Nice images and thanks for the explanation. Very interesting! Here we have plastic bottles, empty  coffee cups and fast food wrappers polluting places...

[Anirban Halder]

Thank you Alex.
Usage of plastic scares me the most.