'The rich gets richer, and the poor gets poorer.' Well, this is not just the dialogue that escaped Rajnikanth's mouth in the film Sivaji, but more importantly, the very line that is now dictating the fate of our nation.
The recent report by the World Bank on Global Hunger shows that India ranks 65 in a total of 79 countries that have been assessed by the Global Hunger Index (GHI). What is even more worse is that according to the latest data on child under-nutrition, India ranks second from last on child-malnutrition in a list of 129 countries. Our economy is growing year by year, but what is the use of an economic boom when the very problems of our nation, which are degrading our development, only seem to worsen? Neighbouring countries like Pakistan and Nepal, which were once undergoing the same fate as ours, have now boomed and are consistently taking steps to eradicate this monster-epidemic of child hunger and malnutrition. There is much to learn from other countries, which, though small or are much behind us in terms of economy, are taking mammoth steps to push of these issues from the national domain. For example, Sri Lanka, whose national scene was blurred with civil wars etc., has achieved impressively high rates of literacy and life expectancy through various people-welfare policies, and enormous investments in health and education. Bangladesh, which is most often looked as a 'miniature' country by us, has succeeded in overtaking us in different social factors, like reduction in child malnutrition and child mortality. That point that deserves much attention is that these changes were possible in these countries only because of the responsible intervention of the states as well as the national governments. I don't know if they are democratic countries, but all I know is that, there, people are the first priority of the government. And yeah, that's what democracy really means.
I have no idea about the percentages of people below the poverty line, or the statistics regarding child hunger or female malnutrition, and neither do I have the reports of the richest and the poorest in our country. I can say that we have aversion to learning, neither from our very own past, which was a beautiful painting of freedom and values by our national leaders, nor from other countries, which despite of being 'whatever' once upon a time, are now forging ahead while we keep gazing at them in meaningless amazement.
What's the use of a so called economic or IT boom, what's the use of different laws or reforms being brought by our government, what's the use of our nation making breakthroughs in the field of sports or medicine or technology or entertainment, when the very people of our nation are starving and rotting to death.
The recent report by the World Bank on Global Hunger shows that India ranks 65 in a total of 79 countries that have been assessed by the Global Hunger Index (GHI). What is even more worse is that according to the latest data on child under-nutrition, India ranks second from last on child-malnutrition in a list of 129 countries. Our economy is growing year by year, but what is the use of an economic boom when the very problems of our nation, which are degrading our development, only seem to worsen? Neighbouring countries like Pakistan and Nepal, which were once undergoing the same fate as ours, have now boomed and are consistently taking steps to eradicate this monster-epidemic of child hunger and malnutrition. There is much to learn from other countries, which, though small or are much behind us in terms of economy, are taking mammoth steps to push of these issues from the national domain. For example, Sri Lanka, whose national scene was blurred with civil wars etc., has achieved impressively high rates of literacy and life expectancy through various people-welfare policies, and enormous investments in health and education. Bangladesh, which is most often looked as a 'miniature' country by us, has succeeded in overtaking us in different social factors, like reduction in child malnutrition and child mortality. That point that deserves much attention is that these changes were possible in these countries only because of the responsible intervention of the states as well as the national governments. I don't know if they are democratic countries, but all I know is that, there, people are the first priority of the government. And yeah, that's what democracy really means.
I have no idea about the percentages of people below the poverty line, or the statistics regarding child hunger or female malnutrition, and neither do I have the reports of the richest and the poorest in our country. I can say that we have aversion to learning, neither from our very own past, which was a beautiful painting of freedom and values by our national leaders, nor from other countries, which despite of being 'whatever' once upon a time, are now forging ahead while we keep gazing at them in meaningless amazement.
What's the use of a so called economic or IT boom, what's the use of different laws or reforms being brought by our government, what's the use of our nation making breakthroughs in the field of sports or medicine or technology or entertainment, when the very people of our nation are starving and rotting to death.
Try not to use yeah. It's always better and neat to use yes.
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