Archive for the 'Poverty' Category

The have-nots

Over at Maami’s weblog, a beautiful (and sad) story is brewing:
“I have one mother.”
Don’t smile,  lady reporter with tape recorder and camera person. Many of my friends have more than one. Their first mothers were raped, murdered, jailed or turned soldiers, and now have new mothers from their neighbourhood or camps like these to foster [...]

REDS in Bangalore

The Ragpickers’ Education and Development Scheme (REDS) have been trying to help a lot of children on the streets of Bangalore. Vinayak Varma recently interviewed four such children rehabilitated by REDS:
“Before I came here, just after my studies, I did coolie work for a couple of weeks. And before that I was a cleaner on [...]

Remembering K.Balagopal

A site dedicated to the memory of human rights activist Balagopal who passed away recently.
Anand Teltumbde recalls his association with his ‘dearest friend and comrade’:
I knew Balagopal since 1980s and admired him for his sharp intellect and deep commitment to human rights. Not many in the movement knew that he was a brilliant mathematician and [...]

R.I.P. Dr.Balagopal

Aditya pays tributes:
A relentless crusader for human rights for three decades now, Andhra Pradesh HC lawyer Balagopal has fought cases from extra-judicial killings of political dissenters to atrocities against Dalits and women. And he has often suffered personal attacks for his efforts, by the police and others shamed by his exposes. But he has never [...]

Green Revolution and Norman Borlaug

Roshan researches and writes about the father of Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug.
It is interesting to note that Borlaug, an American, did all his work in developing countries during a period that saw a boom in American economy. That means he could have possibly found a good job in the US, and lead a comfortable life. [...]

Child labour- a timeline

Keshaw Bhardwaj has jotted down some interesting notes on child labour in India.

No poverty of contempt here

Churumuri follows the angry public exchange of notes that started between Amitabh Bachchan and Jug Suraiya, across the media, after the success of Slumdog Millionaire.  Select portions from the post:
Bachchan:
I accuse the journalist Jug Suraiya of failing his professional ethical code of conduct by means of wilful error in the collection of facts…. He should [...]

The grime of development

Most of the units are covered with a layer of black grime, a combination of dust, oil and some unknown substance. Chemicals are strewn all over the place and the air in these factories feels heavy with fumes from machines.
This is not a scene from a Dickens novel, but is in fact the real status [...]

Meira Kumar and Sukka Pagadaalu

Kingshuk Nag would like to know: how’s Meira Kumar’s appointment going to help ameliorate  the fate of millions of Dalit women across the country?
If the ruling party is so keen to uplift downtrodden women, it should first think of  the likes of Sukka Pagadaalu (picture below), who at 64 is the same age as Meira [...]

Do the poor matter?

Adnan talks to Panditji and Aslam:
Aslam has also his share of problems. “If I manage to sell groundnut worth Rs 150, then I save Rs 40-60 per day but that’s not enough to meet my expenses”. On bad days he makes Rs 30.
He has a wife and a young kid. Wife makes carry bags out [...]

Children and Indian elections

Ruby Nakka ponders on the question: how to make children count in elections?
Children need our attention because they are defenseless. Recently I also read a profound statement on the status of India’s children (to describe why they need our attention) published in the Hindu newspaper on May 3rd, 2009 which states the following: “If you [...]

Red Sun

Which is the biggest threat for Indian General elections to be held in April/May 2009?
a.Jihadi militants from across the border
b.Insurgents from the North East
c.LTTE from Srilanka
d.None of the above
Charakan says it’s option d.

No thanks to Mamata

Of course, how can someone mention the Tata Nano and not talk about Bengal’s saviour Mamata Banerjee:
In the end, the market prevailed. Tata built its car in Gujarat and now a whole generation of people will be able to own their own cars and the freedom of movement that entails. Additionally, people with the Nano [...]

Traveling to India? Do read this

On the Journey to India blog, here are a few things you are warned about if you don’t wish to get culturally shocked:
The smells of India can be the best and worst things about the country. The stench of garbage and urine is common, but so are the heady rich aromas of spices and incense.
Evenings [...]

What do we need?

The future of India may look bright in terms of the demographic dividend, the affluent middle class, the knowledge capital so on and so forth. But it is equally gloomy too. With 27% of the population struggling for their next meal, the global economic turmoil and the marginalized sections facing the heat, the mismanagement of [...]

Don’t donate

How do you feel when you donate something to the poor ? Relieved and your conscience swelled up ? Eclipsed thoughts shows us the reality.
I mean why the hell do you need to distribute the poor Nepalese kids living in the Himalayas some sweets and pencils?
Ever thought what that kid would do with that pencil [...]

Corruption Level

Kanagu does a researched analysis for the level of corruption in India.
In India, if we talk about the government or government officials or administrators, somehow we can relate them with corruption. We are paying bribe at times willingly to speed up the work and at times, we are paying due to compulsion to get our [...]

‘The fragrance always stays’

Let me end the suspense. Here is what happened: last week I got a phone call from a well to do up market lady who lives in one of the poshest colony of our city. She asked me to send someone as she had things to donate for the children. In spite of having been [...]

‘Toxic convergence’

While in Gujarat, chief minister Narendra Modi organised pogroms to kill Muslims in 2002, here in West Bengal we have “cadre terror” and “party rule” in place of the law and order stipulated under the Constitution of India.
Besides, in West Bengal, Muslims are systematically deprived and excluded, with the result that the fabled “peace” that [...]

Right to Education, finally

Tanushree Bagrodia endorses the Right to Education Bill:
There is also a requirement for private schools to reserve 25% of the class capacity at entry levels for the disadvantaged children from the neighbourhood. Now this makes complete sense as opposed to the caste based reservation that exists at the under and post graduate levels in India. [...]

Why the BJP doesn’t like Aravind Adiga

Daipayan Halder reads the parivar’s mind:
Between 2004 and now, India hasn’t changed much.
As the BJP prepares for another election, the party and its spokesmen it seems are still unmindful of this other India, the India Whining.
On October 26, in Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta wrote that this year’s Man Booker winner Arvind Adiga’s portrayal of India would [...]

Is e-governance enough?

What is the point of e-governance if it works on poor information? Akshi Khandelwal has a point:
There were around 50 people of Delasar who completely opposed the implementation of the enrollment process. They claimed that the given list of BPL beneficiaries was incorrect and that the survey conducted in 2002 was faulty. According to them, [...]

Enterprise Solutions to Poverty

Vinay attends a talk given by Nancy Barry, a pioneer in the field of creating private, market-based solutions to poverty alleviation for women across the globe. The gist: governments and NGOs can’t deal with poverty effectively:
MFIs must look beyond being simply mass-lenders, and instead should aggressively focus on providing a full range of financial products [...]

In whose defense?

In rural Chhattisgarh, Shantanu doesn’t find the Chandrayaan swinging by:
But this is not a matter of expending money on what one might say are India’s chronically deprived underbelly. Even as I write, the press is reporting about hoe the soldiers in Siachen are being issued old and even torn clothing because new one’s haven’t been [...]

Chandrayaan in the west

Reactions in the western press anger Juggernaut:
It is beyond their primitive brains to understand what an investment in Science and Technology means in the long run. Every one of those scumbags had the standard question “Why waste 80 million $ on lofty moon missions when the money can be better spent feeding your poor?”. You [...]




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