Rotten grains and hunger

Amazing to see metric tons of wheat rotting up in punjab go-downs while 60% children in madhya pradesh are under malnutrition and hunger according to state government's survey. The dichotomy of the situation is, at one hand we boast of GDPs and highest growth, on the other see majority as sufferers from extreme poverty. Where leaders of the union are garlanded with millions, while millions are unhealthy and crippled with exigencies of life. What a apathy of the state these poor has to face, when they can not get help from their own leaders whom they elect. For some people in media summons to Narendra Modi is more important than increase in LPG to Rs 40. These raises concerns. Are our watchdogs really working as they should! Are we just surviving democracy or are we matured enough to decide what is more important?

We have to recognize that the higher the variance between rich and poor, the higher security will be needed. Further, huge sums of money that is being spent on forces will increase many folds. This is foolishness to sell jeans and t-shirts in Rs. 2000 when people in various parts still live on Rs.20 a day. What model are we into. Are we socialist, communist, consumerist, saving based.
I still remember a poem which will then become a fantasy- "where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, into that haven of freedom, my father! let the country awake". The music in these lines get shrill as time passes. People are forgetting the real meaning of freedom and life. Every one of us have to devout some time working for these men and women who are suffering. The least we can do is to raise voice as intellectuals and middle class for rotten grains and hunger paradoxically.