Friday, December 08, 2006

"Every fourth person around me is officially poor - and I don't know any of them. In contrast, every twenty-fifth Indian around me uses the Web. I know plenty of those Indians. Why am I so detached from an entire one-fourth of my country? "
- Dilip D'Souza
(http://www.indiatogether.org/2006/mar/ddz-povline.htm)

Very true...26% of the population lives below the poverty line (and that's only considering the bare min Rs540 per month scale)

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