Why cant the government provide food to everyone? Like right to free speech, right to information why cant the government ensure right to food?
Do we really need to goto the moon or build cruise missiles while the majority of our population suffers from malnutrition and hunger? As per tamil literature, there are three basic necessities for man, 1.Food, 2.Clothes,3,Shelter. Clothes and shelter comes next to food.
First of all, consider this, why is a government existing?, because people cant manage all their needs,people appoint a government.That government gets its pay in the form of tax and takes care of the necessities of the people. Food is the #1 necessity for majority of Indian population.
Our society is not an equal one in terms of wealth.But, everyone contributes to it. Slum dwellers and daily wagers also contribute to the society. There are several problems in implementation of the "right to food". But, we have to find ways to implement it.
It seems our current government is moving towards implementing this.
From a Hindu article,
In a nation where mammoth wealth and intense destitution have co-existed for millennia, a law that would bind governments to guarantee that no man, woman or child sleeps hungry could be momentous.
They are forced to cut back on their food intakes, sometimes reduced to eating one meal a day; or to beg for food; or to eat tubers, grasses and mango kernels that fill their stomachs but provide no nutrition; or sometimes just to drink the starch water left over after cooking rice, which their neighbours give them in tight-fisted charity. They suffer to see their children painfully sleep on empty stomachs, and often succumb to ordinary illnesses which better nourished people would easily survive.
Half the children born in this land continue to be malnourished, and two out of three women are anaemic, because even within families, women eat the least and only after all others have been fed.
the Chairperson of the UPA, Sonia Gandhi, seized the initiative by writing her first letter to the Prime Minister since the installation of this government, proposing a bill that much more comprehensively guarantees adequate food to people who live with hunger. Many people who are chronically denied food have been specifically detailed in the draft she recommended: such as single women, disabled and aged people, street children, bonded workers, people in casual, low paid employment including agricultural labour and rag-picking, the urban homeless, and others.
The President of the Republic of Brazil, when his country launched a similar food guarantee, called "Hunger Zero". He had pledged, "We will make it possible for people in our country to eat three square meals a day, every day, with no need for handouts from anyone. Brazil cannot go on living with so much inequity. We must overcome hunger, extreme poverty and social exclusion. Our war is not to kill anyone. It is to save lives".
A bonded worker, a child searching in rubbish heaps, and a disabled or aged man who stretches out his limbs for alms, possibly may have a full stomach, but without the dignity that every single human being is entitled to.
Some possible ways to implement "right to food" are mentioned here.
India TV, one of India’s major Hindi channels, invited Sanal Edamaruku for a discussion on “Tantrik power versus Science”. Pandit Surinder Sharma, who claims to be the tantrik of top politicians and is well known from his TV shows, represented the other side. During the discussion, the tantrik showed a small human shape of wheat flour dough, laid a thread around it like a noose and tightened it. He claimed that he was able to kill any person he wanted within three minutes by using black magic. Sanal challenged him to try and kill him.
Hilarity ensues as the tanrik tries to kill Mr.Sanal by using magic.All magic words recited,he's still alive.Then the tantrik backed out saying that he has a better magic spell and it will work only during night.So,another tv show was shot during night.As expected, the tantrik fails this time too.
Happened to see this "NATIONAL CRIME RECORDS BUREAU" website, and the Indian govt had provided some interesting statistics there. Even though the statistics were from 2006, the pattern wont be changing much.Govt has yet to provide the latest statistics on the site. Anyway, i have listed some statistics (graphs) from the 2006 report below.
# Types of Inmates
Convicts- People found guilty and sentenced by court Undertrials- People under court trial
# Available prison capacity vs number of inmates
A jail with 100% inmate attendance is said to be crowded,and more than that is termed "overcrowded". This graph means that all Indian prisons are overcrowded.
#Educational qualification of Inmates
This is a clear proof that literacy reduces crime.
#Percentage Distribution of Convicts undergoing various period of Sentences
#Total capacity of Central Jails
# Total number of Jails
#Distribution of crimes
# Expenditure per Inmate
#Jail staff
More correctional staff could help in correction and rehabiliation.
In a washington post article, the author tries to explain the reason for the entry of foreign faces (Caucasian ) into the Indian advertisingf media , be it print or TV. Here are some intereresting excerpts from the article,
The presence of Caucasian models in Indian advertisements has grown in the past three years, industry analysts say. The trend reflects deep cultural preferences for fair skin in this predominantly brown-skinned nation of more than 1 billion people.
"Indians have a longing for that pure, beautiful white skin. It is too deep-rooted in our psyche," said Enakshi Chakraborty, who heads Eskimo India, a modeling agency that brings East European models here.
Is the above statement true? i am not sure!
Advertisers say that white female models appeal to them because they are typically less inhibited than their Indian counterparts when it comes to showing skin and posing in lingerie.
"So many international brands are entering India, and they use white models to emphasize their foreignness. To compete, Indian companies also want to feature white faces," said Rohit Chawla, a fashion photographer and advertising filmmaker who has worked with white models. "The perception is, if you put a white face to your product, it is a quicker route to sales."
Lokesh Mishra, general manager of marketing at Woodland Worldwide says, "And we are also playing on the typical Indian mind-set that thinks if the white people are wearing our brand, then it must be good."
Not to mention our "Superstar" appearing as caucasian in "Sivaji", "oru koodai sunlight" song. Am not at all opposing this trend, but, just wanted to share what the media people think about Indian mindset.
Its been well understood by malaysian Indians that Malaysian govt is against Indians in Malaysia. Malaysian govt is doing a sort of ethnic cleansing to force Indians out of Malaysia and is discriminating against Indians at all levels. Evidence of this fact can be seen in these YouTube videos, here.
More shocking information is that the private sector in Malaysia has also started to discriminate against Indians.
View the screenshot of a job offer, unavailable only to Indians, (got it by email from Global Tamils group)
(No URL, since i got it by email)
So, i made a research to check whether the job ad is true.
I searched the JobStreet site, but they replaced the ad with this new one fearing an outrage.
