K. Ramarajan raises an interesting point - "it appears as if we are giving
champagne to a person who has not had food for 10 days."
I haven't seen Ambedkar Nagar slums, but I wonder if it's ever that easy to
tell
what someone else should have first. Don't forget that even in the midst of
wealth in Washington, DC, people still go hungry. (If the posters in food
stores
are to be believed). But they have electricity and gas - even TV and cars.
A "larger intervention of holistic empowerment" might happen some day; it's not
as if there isn't enough work to be done on all fronts. In the meantime,
let the
poor woman in the slum at least dream that she can send her son to Amreeka!
Nikhil
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