STORIES BEHIND THE CURTAIN *Two Indians with a total net worth of $58.1 billlion figured in the 2011 list of the ten richest billionaires on the planet. *Seven Indians are listed among the 100 richest people in the world while fifty Indians made it to the Forbes billionaire list in 2011. *The combined wealth of Indias fifty-five wealthiest people is $246.5 billion in 2011. *Between 1996 and 2008, wealth holdings of Indian Billionaires are estimated t have risen from 0.8 per cent of GDP to 23 per cent. But India is a home to the largest number of impoverished people, the largest who sleep hungry, and the largest numbers of malnourished children among all countres on the globe. *The Planning commissions latest estimates place the number 0f poor people in India at 360 million. These are true-stories collected... *A widow in Rajasthan, Mani, was convinced that you even imagine even what I went through, when I used to come back late at night after work and I could hear my Younger daughter wailing because of hunger, and my ELDER DAUGHTER, still a SMALL CHILD, WITH AN EMPTY STOMACH, USED TO WAIT PATIENTLY. *It is a custom among the Dalit Madiga caste of Andhra Pradesh to tie some grains of rice on the edge of the sari of a woman who dies before she is buried in an unmarked grave. Balas geatest regret was that when his mother Gujalachmi died, there was no rice in the house. It is considered inauspicious for neighbours to donate grains for funeral rites. So Gujalachmi had to be buried as she had lived, without solace and dignity. And even a fistful of rice... (From the book Ash in the Belly Indias Unfinished Battle Against Hunger by Harsh Mander)
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