Articles with tag: poverty

India's Primary Duty

Rakesh Mani Oct 29, 2009 interacts: 20

How can we get a society of adults to be accountable for the treatment of its youngest citizens?

Serenade to the Sleepless

Sonya Rehman Oct 19, 2009 interacts: 10

Hoisting her basket back on her head, Ayesha turned around, and looked over at the other side of the road, to the brick wall, where she’d left her little brother. But he was nowhere in sight. Ayesha’s heart raced.

Squatters, Scavengers and A Gandhian

Dost Mittar Oct 22, 2009 interacts: 27

Some of these people would stand up holding their pajamas or dhotis to protect their dignity at the sight of the approaching train; most would carry on without paying any attention to those seeing them perform one of their most private functions.

The Flour Deaths

kashkin dabruski Sep 15, 2009 interacts: 10

Do we need?
The question on their lips
The hatred in their hearts
As they died in the stampede
Of our failures and demise!

Slumdog Success Brings Focus on Child Poverty

Riaz Haq Feb 24, 2009 interacts: 12

After the well-deserved success of the well-made Slumdog movie, will the lives of poor children in Mumbai improve?

A Big, Decadent Pakistani Wedding

Malik A Jamal Nov 14, 2008 interacts: 9

Pity the nation whose rich spend recklessly on decadent weddings but won’t spare few dimes to alleviate suffering of the down-trodden. Pity that nation, for it is a dying nation.

Thought for Food and Food for Thought

Faysal Malik Nov 16, 2008 interacts: 6

In last sixty minutes, while earth rotated around it’s axis for about 1,000 miles on the same planet 1,000 people died because of hunger.

A Strategy For Real Agricultural Prosperity

Murad A Baig Aug 11, 2008 interacts: 31

2.4% farmers control 23% of the land. They are the barriers to India's progress in agriculture. They can be moved, and they must be moved if India is to eliminate rural poverty.

We Can Make a Difference

Bhaskar Dasgupta Jun 30, 2008 interacts: 5

They are the children who have been abandoned, have run away from abusive homes, were orphaned or simply got lost.

Children of the Streets

Ather Naqvi Apr 23, 2008 interacts: 4

His frail hands make a slight mistake and draw the wrath of the Ustad who lands a kick in his side. The boy gives out a painful scream but quickly turns back to work.

Last But Not Least

Ather Naqvi Apr 17, 2008 interacts: 3

Poverty may be more than a silent killer. This sentence cannot be ignored as emotional rhetoric since, sadly, it has become a hair-raising reality.

Is It Treason to Question

Amer Nazir Apr 7, 2008 interacts: 15

In the General Hospital in Lahore, in the top most brain surgery institute of Pakistan, people lie in verandas in unhygienic conditions.

An Agenda for the New Government

Kamal Siddiqi Mar 24, 2008 interacts: 70

This time round, the change has come from the people. And it is their expectations and aspirations that have to be addressed.

Kibera Inside and Outside

kashkin dabruski Jan 5, 2008

Bullets inside my head
And hunger outside me
I am a little child
My mother gone

Privatization of PTCL: The Redundant Employees

Imran Ali Teepu Nov 25, 2007 interacts: 6

As many as 40,000 people will quit the job through Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) offered by the PTCL management.

An Alternative Approach to International Development

Thorsteinn Gestsson Sep 24, 2007 interacts: 13

Although many nations have promised 0.7% of GNI to relieve suffering and secure the enjoyment of basic human rights, no one is able to hold them accountable.

Guddi

Tahera Sajid May 9, 2007 interacts: 17

'Am I forever destined to wish better luck to others when nothing good ever comes my way?'

India: Is Growth Coming at Expense of Development

Aparna Pande Feb 21, 2007 interacts: 90

For the last two years the IMF and the World Bank have been warning India about the dangers of inflation.

The Poor of Allai

Yahya Haq Sep 20, 2006 interacts: 2

The earthquake of 8th October that affected the wealthy and poor alike in the devastated areas has once again brought out the plight of the poor.

Little Beggar Beauty

Lakshmi Mukundan Aug 4, 2006 interacts: 1

I am like many in my city
Not callous enough to be unmoved
But too timid to do what I could and should.

Media Spin and the Hidden Poverty in America

M Asadi Apr 1, 2006 interacts: 118

The mainstream media instead of being outraged at why 37 million Americans are poor and chronically hungry in one of the wealthiest countries of the world gloats over a fictitious one percentage improvement

familiar junction/beggars galore/avert eyes/ignore ignore

Mariam Shoaib Dec 6, 2005

Reality hits as traffic lurches to a start.

Church Lures Gujarat Tribals to Christ

Sunil K Poolani Nov 15, 2005 interacts: 199

Poverty is forcing the tribal community to embrace Christianity

London Targeted: Numbers Game

Temporal Jul 7, 2005 interacts: 160

today’s mourning
in the wake of
yesterday’s jubilation
and the futility of
fragmenting one
into us and them

Outside the Military Hospital

Bina Shah May 2, 2005 interacts: 9

The sun is equally unkind to them all
And God is equally forgiving. And that’s the way it’s always been
Despite fifty years and as many leaders in between.

Linking Poverty and Population

Kamal Siddiqi Apr 24, 2005 interacts: 41

Currently Pakistan is the sixth most populated country in the world. It also enjoys the dubious distinction of having the largest people under the poverty line, estimated at over 50 million.

Life inside and outside the Bubble

shan rehman Apr 19, 2005 interacts: 31

The children’s eyes staring into the multicolored wonderland of Mcdonald’s, the beggars tapping the rolled-up car windows at traffic stops. There isn’t room for everyone inside, with the air-conditioner on. There never will be.

Fighting Poverty in Pakistan

Kamal Siddiqi Apr 13, 2005 interacts: 41

Mr Aziz holds the view that a higher growth rate will, in itself, take care of poverty. However, there are many that do not agree with this assertion.

A Personal Connection

Harimau Iyer Apr 6, 2005 interacts: 18

“Please save my baby. He is all I have got. I lost my seven-year-old son to the sea and my baby is dying in front of my eyes. Please, sir, save my baby.” Her plea was impassioned. There were no tears in her eyes, just despair and a faint ho

Lahore Street Scene

Tauheed Ahmed Apr 5, 2005 interacts: 34

On a hot summers day I see
A child cross the melting street
A load on her head
And no shoes on her feet

Cave-men of Rawalpindi

Shahzad Raza Oct 14, 2004 interacts: 22

Former Kashmiri landlords are living miserable lives in caves in Rawalpindi

Yesterday’s Failures are Today’s Successes

Dost Mittar Nov 28, 2003 interacts: 170

Nehru would have turned in his Samadhi on knowing that the alumni of his highly subsidised institutes of learning ended up serving the very multinationals from whose clutches he wanted to protect his socialist India.