Tempting Grit...!!

"For now I ask no more, than the justice of eating.....!"

After a long time, I am back here again to share an experience with you all!!  Actually the bright is always visible but what about the dark side of the story! So, here today i thought to compare both of them and lets see what is it all about!!

 In my five days of holidays I make it to West Bengal which is breath-takingly beautiful. People over here are very welcoming, but yeah sometimes for me the language was a problem! As I entered the city Kolkata ,the first thing striked in my mind was the shooting of my favorite film “KAHANI” Yes!!! Kolkata is very much alike as shown in the movie. 

And accidentally it was the time of Durga Puja which is the most awaited festival every year here by people! Bengal is a place where people have naturally long black hair with beautiful eyes and how can we forget that it is a place where the most prolific writer “ Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore” was born.People here have a great sense of humor, they love their work, very hardworking and very loving but it was just the glowing side, many of us didn’t know what I am going to tell you now! 

Even I didn’t know this grievous and upsetting thing till I didn't enter to “Bindol” a small village, which is also known as kidney village….!! Do you know why? Because people out here sell their kidneys to get rid of starvation! A study of 20 villages carried out last year recorded 13 deaths from starvation and 1,000 families suffering from chronic hunger syndrome. The government estimates that 37% of the population subsists on less than the official poverty line of 327 rupees (£4.57) per month in rural areas and 570 rupees in urban areas. 

This is not over; here people have taken out a very dreadful way yet easy for them to avoid starvation!

Here, Anandashankar is ready to do the same thing with his own child today , as many other villagers do when they don’t get food for weeks. The poker is glowing red hot in the flames of the burning wood. The boy holds a leaf against his stomach and warily eyes the older man sitting on the other side of the fire. Suddenly Shankar takes hold of the poker and lunges towards the boy's stomach.

Everyone in the village knows what should happen next. The child will scream loudly as the flesh begins to blister. Again and again, the poker will jab at his belly. The more the child screams, the happier everyone will be, because the villagers of “Bindol”  believe the only way they can "Cure" the distended stomachs of their famished children is by branding them with pokers.

 It was so painful to even look at that child in this condition. But for them it was nothing new, it decreases their hunger! Friends most of us throw bread or vegetables everyday in dustbin, do you know it’s just waste for us but even a small piece of bread means them life. At one side people were eating sweets, enjoying the Durga Puja, and on other side some villagers were trying to find little happiness to make a way out of starvation!

Do we know the Bhaiya, Aunties, Didis…who work in our home as maids or to clean our cars in short the “Servants” are mostly from west Bengal.

How can we forget that this is the place from where we got such major literary figures like Satyajit Ray, Sir Rajendra Nath Mukherjee , Abdul Karim Sahitya, Bisharad Rabindranath Tagore,Kazi Nazru , Sarojini Naidul?

Our so called Minister of Bengal “Mamta Banerjee” what is she doing even after knowing the situation of her own state! Can she first do her own duty and then point on other political leaders?

This is something again very very shameful for our political leaders! And this is only about Bengal I am talking, what about states like U.P ,Bihar ,Jharkhand ,Orissa etc?

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."

THINK IT OVER!!

NIKITA(IO)