Death by drought and more
2009 December 27
Anjali, friend and blog reader, has an article in The Hindu today about Bundelkhand. Some don’t even know where it is!
In between Mahoba and Chhattarpur districts lies Khajuraho airport. Swanky roads and five-star hotels dot the tourist destination and belie the silent human catastrophe unfolding just kilometres away. Drought may have ravaged the fields but State apathy and the brazenly corrupt officials are more brutal.
Multitudes throng us in every village we visited. Willing to clutch at straws in their desperation, their voices would go: “Have you written about my mentally challenged son?”… “I applied for old age pension long back.” … “I have been anxiously waiting for my widow pension card.” “They haven’t paid my NREGA wages.”
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Sad state of affairs indeed.
I thought I’ll share a piece written by my friend.
A Famished Franchise
Thanks for the link Praveen. I read it. Fills one with a burning sense of shame.
Thanks Uttara for posting it here!
I agree: what most Indians go through everyday fills us with a burning sense of shame. Anger too. It is amazing the way our officials and politicians are not only used to this suffering, but unabashedly cause it without any qualms.