This writer has tasted poverty himself and knows well about its different shades. As famous Urdu poet Moin Hasan Jazbi had said – \u201cRang-e-Sahba aour hai, sahba ki masti aour hai; Khwaab-e-hasti aour hai, tabeer-e-hasti aour hai; Zikr-e-pasti aour hai, ehsas-e-pasti aour hai.\u201d Close transliteration : Color of wine is different than the pleasures of wine. Dreams of existence are different from their fulfillment. To talk about someone who is roughing at the bottom is different than to find himself at the bottom. Someone once said – The poor people have been made to believe that none had snatched away things from them, but it is God Himself who had written wrong luck and destiny for them and they are suffering punishment because of some bad act committed in this life or in some life previous to this life. None is taking responsibility and even the state is silent about the poor and no government could find out the causes of poverty in India and none has proposed methods through which this poverty could be removed from India. The people in democracy could not remove this poverty even after lapse of six decades.<\/p>\n
Our economy is set in such a way that the poor are becoming more poor and the rich are growing more rich. The poor person has got his own identification because he is condemned to inferiority complex and he is found with folded hands at every place and this is his first recognition. There is only a few centimeter distance between the poor and underprivileged and the following real life stories would reveal what I want to bring home. All in the latest of theatre of life. Srinagar, Kashmir. Curfew for the third day – Carrying a dead baby boy in a cardboard box \u2014 his sister Shameema had given birth five days ago but the child died last night \u2014 Abdul Majid Dar has been pleading for an ambulance, at least a curfew pass, to take the body home to Dangerpora in Sopore. Not one in the hospital can help \u2014 they can\u2019t risk sending an ambulance out of the city without permission. Dar can\u2019t get to the Deputy Commissioner, the officer who issues the curfew pass. So, cradling the cardboard box with the body of the newborn, he waits on a bench in the courtyard of the Lal Ded Hospital in Srinagar, unable to decide what to do next.<\/p>\n
The curfew, now in its third day, has begun to hit lives across Kashmir. \u201cI wanted to take the baby\u2019s body home for burial. I didn\u2019t get an ambulance. I can\u2019t go in a private vehicle because I don\u2019t have a curfew pass,\u201d said Dar. \u201cHospital authorities said they can\u2019t spare an ambulance immediately. So I am waiting. What else can I do?\u201d For the delivery, Shameema had to be brought to Lal Ded Hospital, the only maternity hospital in the Valley. Dar said she still doesn\u2019t know that her baby is dead. From Srinagar, let us go to Kanpur. Aman Khan, a Class 2 student, suffered head injuries on July 3 after the iron gate at his home in Shyam Nagar fell on him. His parents tried to take him to a hospital but were allegedly delayed because of traffic restrictions in place in the city for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was in Kanpur that day to attend the IIT convocation. Tahadud Hussain Khan, Aman\u2019s father, told the newspaper he tried to take Aman to Regency Hospital in Sarvodaya Nagar, but was delayed because of traffic restrictions. \u201cThe police had blocked Grand Trunk Road near Coca-Cola Chauraha, about a kilometre from the hospital,\u201d Khan said. \u201cI pleaded with them to let us pass but they diverted my car towards Nazirabad police station.<\/p>\n
There was heavy traffic on this route, and it took us nearly 30 minutes to reach Regency. Had they let me through on GT Road, I would have reached the hospital in five minutes.\u201d Khan said that Aman bled to death in the car. \u201cHe was declared dead on arrival at the hospital\u201d. Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari called the child\u2019s death an \u201cunfortunate incident\u201d and said the \u201cfacts are being ascertained\u201d. Is this the country that Mahatma Gandhi had dreamed for Indians ? If he comes back today what would he make out of the present scenario ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This writer has tasted poverty himself and knows well about its different shades. As famous Urdu poet Moin Hasan Jazbi had said – \u201cRang-e-Sahba aour hai, sahba ki masti aour hai; Khwaab-e-hasti aour hai, tabeer-e-hasti aour hai; Zikr-e-pasti aour hai, ehsas-e-pasti aour hai.\u201d Close transliteration : Color of wine is different than the pleasures of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[1104,1097,1103,1101,1105,1106,1102,1096],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-facts-are-being-ascertained","tag-rang-e-sahba-aour-hai","tag-unfortunate-incident","tag-centimeter-distance","tag-coca-cola-chauraha","tag-nazirabad-police-station","tag-shameema","tag-twin-tales-from-one-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amroha.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}