IT was a small and forbidding toilet, airless and unlit. Squatting in it was unpleasant and came with risks both real and imagined. Slipping was a serious possibility. For the uninitiated there was also the irrational fear of falling into the pot itself.
Rural children, around the age of three, for whom the toilet was meant, found it unnerving to be shut into a small, dark space. They were accustomed to going out in the open, invariably in the company of siblings or friends. Urinating or defecating was a group thing. They liked the earth under their feet and. . .
