Why is India so filthy?

"What's the message? If you see a problem, you will go fix it, nobody stops you, you can actually make a change, don't waste your time complaining."¹

When it's about public space, isn't it actually your place to demand such changes from the the public institutions that actually have the authority and responsibility for its maintenance? ...and also to complain when the institutions in question don't do their job? The filth is just a symptom, not a cause. The message quoted above calls for a kind of civic action that will only detract the needed attention from addressing the real problems of the system.

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tf...

EDIT: Adding the link to the quoted message.

Here’s the “The Ugly Indian” Facebook page mentioned in the TED talk, where you can see before-and-after photos of the community clean-up projects. https://www.facebook.com/theugl.yindian

This is the best thing I've seen all year.