When Dr.Abdul Kalam in his book ‘India 2020’ advocated strongly for India to be a super power and a developed nation by the year 2020, he never thought that millions of country childs are being ignored of a meal, on that day the speech made us proud, happy and all the emotional chemistry which gives us feel good expression, ignoring the real facts, real issues, real people of India.
On this week the ugly truth of my country was published by the International Food Policy Research Institute which states that the country ranked 67th among the 80 worst countries in term of mal nutrition. Statistically, 21% of its population undernourished, nearly 44% of under-5 children underweight and 7% of them dying before they reach five years, India is firmly established among the world's most hunger-ridden countries. The situation is better than only Congo, Chad, Ethiopia or Burundi, but it is worse than Sudan, North Korea and Pakistan.
Well, for many (which include me) it was a slap to wake me up from the illusion of a progressing country. My dad use to say countable cities does not represent a country, at that moment I had a feeling that my dad was cynical but now I strongly believe that he was not cynical, he understood the nerve of the country more than I did.
For lavish luxury and hi profile life style we never looked the tears in eye, ignored the pain in the stomach of 230 million children. Let’s take an incident from our daily life, we are ready to pay 10 rupee tip to a pizza boy but we are not ready to spend 10 rupee to feed a child who lies helpless in the road. Why we do that?
I don’t have the answer; in fact I was so ignorant and was behaving like the blind monkey of Gandhi that I never looked or thought to find an answer for that. I don’t blame the Government, government is not liable of my lavish wastage of money and food resource I blame myself of doing nothing, I blame myself for spending more than need.
Today the statistics has given me some of my answer, has it given to others?
why do the child need 10 rupee? why 1 rupee aint enough to buy stomach full food here?
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