We are the world
20/11/03 20:30 Filed by Saswat Pattanayak in:
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What happens in the least ‘developed’ state of India?
Does it hurt to see? Is it time to change the posters
on the wall? To remind self of the fact that people
actually died of starvation every year I have lived.
Even this year in a “democracy” (sorry, welfare
economists/Nobel laureates). And is the world very
different in Orissa? Or is it just us? Is corruption
alien to the American democracy? Or homelessness not
the order of the day for 35 million Americans?
Maybe we relish political satires at home too much
(sorry, documentary directors) to realize that there
is a world beyond the pepsi-coke US, as much as there
are people beyond the victims of Kerry-Bush dilemma.
People like us with commonalities, living in our
world. ‘They’ must be ‘us’. Just to remind, here’s to
Orissamatters…
Tags: Saswat, Orissa, India, Media