Entries Tagged as ‘poverty’

October 6, 2008

Why Our India Cannot Innovate, yet

India has a population of 1,138,900,000 today. Yet very very little part of India can be bracketed as developed, other than that the 10 Major cities in India is at large, still a Large Village. Is this good or bad is not be judged.

The bar chart above shows the position of different states concerning literacy [...]

September 24, 2008

85 Is Not So Bad, Is It?

India is a rich country, no doubt. People have money. People spend money. The standard of living for those above the poverty line is decent, when compared to the so-called developed nations. Ok, before someone slaps me, I’d better pinch myself awake from my dream.
The Transparency International Report is out for 2008 and India is [...]

July 19, 2008

Is this humanity?

Author:- vishesh

Is this humanity?
While very few see the day as bright,
a lot more can’t even cry,because of their plight.
try as they might,
they cannot keep on with the fight.
Whose fault is it that they were born?
whose fault is it that whatever they do is wrong?
Whose fault is it that by seeing them we say we have [...]

June 30, 2008

We, the Children of India!

AUTHOR:RADHESH

Is this just that worth all the pain? We were strolling by a busy area in Bangalore for an evening cup of coffee at Barista or CCD. Much to my amazement of observing street fights, I noticed all people on the road gazing in one direction - this made me all the more [...]

June 9, 2008

Thieving Bastards!

Author: Nikhil
I know this isn’t the usual time for me to post in this forum, but I can’t help but bring this incident that happened in the workplace today. There’s a woman who works here as a maid, cleans up the place, serves the coffee and tea everyday and generally makes sure that everyone needs [...]

June 5, 2008

Bhookh… Hunger Crisis …. You can help too

Author : Suda
Bhookh.com

www.bhookh.com
You can just go to this site and “click” thats it. Just a single click which cost you nothing and help some of the poor and hungry children out there. You are welcome to click as many times as you can. I suggest you should make this site your homepage.
There are many NGO’s [...]

June 5, 2008

FEED FREE RICE !!

Author : Arvind
Inflation rate is at its highest and it is  set to increase even more .ITs the same problem in almost all the developing countries. Rich are getting richer and poor are getting even poorer…With the prices of essential commodities like rice increasing at a fast pace the poor and the needy  are unable [...]

May 29, 2008

Who is our real enemy?

Author : Sandeep
One of the previous posts by teky has suggested poverty as our enemy, but i don’t seem to agree with that. I will try to take a stand on my view of our real enemy by asking the basic question, what causes poverty?
Poverty is a situation when there is more demand and less [...]

May 29, 2008

Heroes Of China

Author : Nikhil
Email forwards never fail to annoy me and I generally delete them without a second thought. But this morning, I got a forward about the earthquake in China and the brave young men, women and children who risked their lives to save others. I had to share this with all of you.

An earthquake [...]

May 27, 2008

Severn Suzuki and THE One tight slap

Author : Amit
It was the year 1992 and Severn Suzuki was a 12 year old kid. She raised money with the members of the Environmental Children’s organization (ECO) and attended the United Nation’s Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro. She gave a six minutes speech there which received a standing ovation from the delegates of [...]