This idea may sound ludicrous at first glance but there is evidence to suggest that it’s possible All Indians are poverty-alleviation experts; their need to depute the task to the right authorities is often what their tweets, evening chats and morning walks are all about.
India is obsessed with poverty. Most of our policies are about the eradication of poverty; most of our funds are dedicated to the poor.
That Indians are still poor is not the perplexing element in this—there will always be the poor as long as there are the rich, and India’s poor are way better today than the abject poor of our childhood.
What is perplexing is the way India treats its poor. This has not changed. Irrespective of whether you are a freelance humanitarian or a