Poverty exists outside India too ... but let's just talk about India for now, 'cause this is where poverty is acceptable as a way of life!
Governments talk about the 'poverty line'. This is a very invisible line. Apparently if a person can earn 50 cents a day he is above this magical line. A dollar is about 40 Rupees (for those who don't know). This amount can definitely keep a human being alive. This is what is the cost of basic existence in India.
How very conveniently we seem to forget that man does not live by bread alone... or in this case rice and curry. We forget sanitation, housing, clothing, water, education and most of all ... human dignity.
The Indian Government doesn't bat an eyelid to spend billions of dollars on sophistacted fighter planes and missiles. But when it comes to finding solutions to poverty they have no self-respect. They want missiles and armies to defend the hungry starving millions!
It is high time we realized that there is really NOTHING TO DEFEND - there is no human dignity left for us to feel proud as a nation and wave the tricolour and sing the National Anthem. Even 60 years after so called political freedom, our people are yet shackled by the chains of poverty.
INDIA IS A LAND OF TOTAL INSECURITY; TOTAL INDIGNITY; TOTAL MISERY!
This is the TRUE INDIA! ONE BILLION INDIANS ARE VERY, VERY MISERABLE - BECAUSE WE WASTE SO MUCH MONEY ON A FUTILE ARMS RACE WITH PAKISTAN AND CHINA!!!
The SOLUTION is not as difficult as it may appear. WE HAVE TO GET TOGETHER WITH PAKISTAN IN PARTICULAR AND TOGETHER GIVE UP OUR WASTEFUL EXPENDITURE ON WEAPONS.
We have to STOP our MARTIAL CEREMONIES on REPUBLIC DAY. We should not glorify our MILITARY and WARFARE in general. THIS 'PARADING' IS NO BETTER THAN THE ANCIENT TRIBAL RITUAL of showing off our MANHOOD with our spears and swords.
It is high time that India and the whole world gave up its SAVAGERY and AWAKEN to ENLIGHTENMENT. The crazy people who are our Presidents, Prime Ministers and Kings are a bunch of loonies who need to be locked up in mental insitutions. They have no right to make the lives of billions of people in this world a living hell in the guise of glorifying PATRIOTISM, RELIGION and NATIONALISM. There is just one class in the this world in this modern age and time - HUMANISM.
TOGETHERNESS and COMPASSION are the only weapns that can cure Poverty in this world.
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