Rameshwar Natholi complains about the size of the pit for the unused new toilet in his front yard in Mukhrai village in India’s Uttar Pradesh state. “The pit is too small; it will fill up ...

Sitting in the toilet increases your chances to get disorders like bloating, hemorrhoids and constipation. It is also because when you sit rather than squat, you often strain to fix the restricted ...

In other words, sitting on a toilet puts the knees at approximately a 90-degree angle to the abdomen, unlike in squatting, where the knees are pressed against the torso and the angle is ...

You are traveling on the highway. You like to avoid public toilets, but the urge is so strong that you cannot help visiting ...

A movie that tackles the subject of open defecation may not sound like romantic entertainment, but audiences across India think the current Bollywood hit “Toilet: A Love Story” delivers just that.

Which is why back in 2001, the Yale dropout designed Nature's Platform, a table elevated at a five-degree angle that allows the user to squat two inches above the toilet seat.

Sitting in a squatting position with a 35-degree angle is important for optimal bowel movement posture, but in Western toilets, you sit at a 90-degree angle, which potentially leads to ...

Pathak believes that the squat toilet developed by him is the right one for India. In the toilet museum run by the Sulabh organisation, Dr Jha demonstrates how it works: a shed with a hole in the ...