Joy of giving week ,2011 ( Courtesy: Google Images) India is getting ready to celebrate 'Joy of giving week of 2011' . This philanthropy festival started in India in the year 2009 and within two years, it become 'important week' for all the NGOs and CSR divisions. The name of the festival was suggested by an Ad agency Euro RSCG India , which handled Media and PR related work for the festival. Overall 500 plus events are carried out in more than 70 cities in India during this week. The week of Mahatma Gandhiji's birthday i.e 2nd October has been chosen for 'India Giving Week', as it can gain National importance. Not-for-profit organizations,Corporate CSR divisions, Government Schools, and Non-government organizations carries out different fundraising activities during this week.Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and God of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar both supported this idea and also helped raise more than Rs.20 Crore for NGOs wo
That was a stark post Deepak. While reading one is not aware of the girl's age till it is mentioned. Poverty indeed is a weapon of mass destruction.
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India has two India's within it,
A Rich one and a Poor one.
It's very annoying to see such scenes. Third last paragraph is so touchy. Excellent work Deepak!
ReplyDeleteAhh..We run away from the Truth, as we can't see such scenes.There are many ways by which these poor Indians kill their hunger which are more tragic than the one I described.
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@Deepak: This is really a heart touching though heart wrecking piece of yours.......u have showed the true picture of poor India.....
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ReplyDeleteWorst thing is that more than 6 decades have a passed after our Independence,still we have heart-breaking Poverty :(
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ReplyDeleteIt is really a heart touching post depicting poverty
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ReplyDeleteNice Poem .
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OMG it's so touchy...n the big thing is it's a hard fact of life...poverty!
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ReplyDelete'A penny saved is a penny gained'; But pennies can't save the day for today's folks....While the poor live with pennies, the rich live with comfies. Someone in India has got to find a solution to alleviate poverty. Obviosly, their one "SUPER IDEA' to alleviate poverty will fetch them the noble price....
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Poverty is not only related to only Economics. There are many socio-political factors causing Poverty.
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I have been writing on the subject for a long time now, and not only from a narrow economist's perspective, though I was trained as an economist. All things wretched in India are intertwined with the vexed issue of poverty: corruption, ignorance, superstition, casteism, inequality, obsession with so-called 'assured' careers to the detriment of all real art and science, you name it. And our country (I shall not make the mistake of blaming only the political class) has chosen to keep it unsolved for more than six decades, despite pious pronouncements without number. Of late, we have even decided that the two Indias can happily cohabit: let the top ten percent get rich by global standards, and then the bottom 40% won't matter... and then we pretend that we cannot 'understand' why the advanced world so despises us still, or why there is so much unrest and rebellion all over the country!
ReplyDeleteI guess everyone knows the root-cause of Poverty in India,but the question remains are our efforts adequate enough to eradicate Poverty upto 2020? I afraid the answer is 'NO'
ReplyDeleteThanks 4 giving your great perspective on the subject Survoji :)