To My friends, I have read a few arm-chair critics discussing underweight children in the fourth Estate by article, letters to editor and Emails. Agricultural revolution is not a yesterday’s effort. It had been a process. We can no more accuse hoarding as reason for hunger and poverty. Let us first understand that poverty is a Universal Phenomenon. Edible food has very poor shelf life that hoarding and profiteering in food is not deliver profits. 75 years back as son of a top lawyer in town I went to school barefoot. All my class mates laughed that I had a glass of milk in the morning. Cow’s milk was intended only for babies starved of mother’s milk. The dearth of breast-milk was because many mothers were starved. From there when I reached college hostels in post war period we were forced to eat wheat due to shortage of rice.. We reached the regime of LaL Bahadur Shashri’s period every family went on a fast on Thursdays so that some food can also reach the poor. That is not the end of the story. From around 1980, when I return at 6 am from my early morning walk, I never found any smell of cooking coming in the air till 2010. Now from Marina beach to my home at Alwarpet I find the aroma of cooking. This proves that 20 years back common people had no breakfast made. They lived on previous day’s left over. We are progressing and shall look for more progress. Living is ongoing process. The Indian average age was 27 when I was in middle school. Today it is 62.. I have done 23 years more than the average Indian. Hope all of you would do better. Do not indulge in blame games. Strive for progress.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 03:26:00 +0000
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