With a release done, I was slightly relaxed and browsing through some of the top stories on news portals. Suddenly, I read an eye-catching headline "My name is hunger, my daughter's name is thirst" . I was shamelessly curious to explore further the pitiful condition of these villagers. It reminded me of Amitav Ghosh's novel "Hungry Tide" where he has given a poignant description of the catastrophe that these hungry tides bring and change the lives of the affected, for ever.
In the movie "Forrest Gump", Forrest says "Stupid is as stupid does". This naive statement by that dumb-ass boy raises doubts over our country's self-proclaimed intelliegentsia who talk only in numbers. you can hear them blabbering through various sources that our GDP will grow by 7 or 8%, our inflation is under 0.8% and is at decade's low. Are we not proving ourselves stupid enough by neglecting the basic rights, these citizens should get?
These flushed faces with many a hungry tides in their eyes raises a few disturbing doubts and makes mockery of our claims of self-sufficiency, rising per capita income and good-governance.
The ladies of the affected families shouts again- come take our interview, our name is hunger and our daughters are named as thirst.
Links used: http://in.rediff.com/
2 comments:
Its a curious case of two Indias...
@Ricky,
Yes and the gap is widening by each passing day.
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