The DARK SIDE

                      This is a recollection of my recent trip to MELGHAT region of Maharastra guring GRA winter camp.

                                           It is place more famous for it's malnutrition deaths than it's rich forests and  beautiful hill station. It is a place where activists must fight against government for showing right number of children dead because of mal-nutrition for grabbing media attention and forcing the government to pour in funds. It is a place where an civil servant feels himself unlucky being posted there but turns out rich by the end of his tenure there. It is place where people are forced to feed on improper diet because of their poverty.

                  An eye-opener for me,seeing people living in such situations. People there feed on their own crops that too grown only once a year, leading to malnutritious diet and bad health. They even can't buy rice and wheat because of their limited source of income. Public transport is out of questioin, Hospitals for them are like "BURJ DUBAI" to us, roads for them are like footpath to us.

                               All this is happening all around us. Government allocated funds are eaten up , preying on innocence of the people. What people, press and media see is the bright side of INDIA, a growing, emerging super power. I am not complaining about this, I am saying these people are even more pushed backwards in to poverty. Many of you , even me until going there believed that the number of people like them has drastically reduced in this vibrant india, but NO it's not. They left with no options, they can't move to cities and towns as there isn't a source of income and would be left same as countless others moving into cities with great hopes but whipped with reality, they can't stay in villages as their lives weren't improved at all. They have accustomed themselves to such lives, situations are forcing them to put their mouths closed, civil servants are like BARACK OBAMA to us.

                                                     This is reality to my eyes, hope this sheds light on unknown side to many of us in a bright INDIA. Comments, suggestions, questions, your opinions can be freely expressed here.       "LIVE THE WORLD, LIVE FOR THE WORLD"

                                                                                                             signing off
                                                                                                         Vishnu Vardhan