Chennai gets toilet savvy!!!

When I first came back to India from US, getting toilet paper was a big thing.. I had got so accustomed to the toilet paper that to think how by and large most Indians cleaned up after their ablutions was disgusting.. Yet for the larger portion of my youth and young adult life, that is what I even I did..OOH.Since we lived in the suburbs getting toilet paper was a big thing... only the posh shops in downtown Chennai , a good hour and a half from where I lived, carried the paper, that to once in a while It was a luxury of all luxuries. True, Indians make a great distinction between their left hands and right hands-- the former to clean their poos and the latter for the more worthwhile activities like writing and eating etc. The right hand knows what the left hand does and keeps away from it...Anyway when I was in Mumbai two years later after my return from US , I found the Mumbaites had made a great advancement in that area..No not toilet paper but a middle ground between left hand and toilet paper... a bottom cleaning shower... Yes Yes it is located close to the toilet bowl and has a pipe that ends in a tiny but powerful shower head. You press the leverage close to your bottom and wow a forceful jet of water cleans you up thoroughly..I was impressed. Now with the passage of a few more years, I find that middle class homes in Chennai have installed the jet system as well...
In the US I remember the technicians in the lab.. I mean the American ones used to love to tease us about the Indian toilet habits and we Indians would desperately try to change the topic..Anyway it is a disgusting topic to dwell on and with India getting into the'jet' age (ha!Ha!) that topic is forever closed I think