September 18,
2001
Poverty and hunger in India is worse than
that imaginable in the worst capitalistic societies, that believe in and
blatantly allow the practices of unadulterated market forces, and the hidden pulls and invisible pressures of an
otherwise free economy! It is thus that
the workers
are deprived of all their profits and comforts, wages and food, and the luxury
of utilising and or consuming what they produce. So it is that they remain hungry and in poverty always. To understand the Roots of Hunger,
one has to understand Poverty.
Why is Poverty a reality? How does Poverty become a fact of life
amidst us, and amidst apparently plentiful production, massive storages and
criminally huge wastages in transportation, storage? Where do all the large and immense wealth of the Society go? Who hides them? How they are all hidden? Well,
they used to be hidden in the past, afraid of the people, afraid of the
society, afraid of the thieves, afraid of the police, afraid of the Govts,
afraid of the tax-men! Today no one is
afraid of any one. All the stolen
wealth are there to be shown, shining glittering shamelessly. It is the stolen wealth that finances their
gaudy colours, shining clothes, thick tasteless jewelleries, cheaply done big
houses, flashy cars, and the money to pay for the petrol and diesel that drive
their cars, zoom .....
How is
that the People are hungry in a Country where the land is fertile and rich with
plentyful of regular seasonal monsoon rains, with a potential for producing
more than enough food for the population?
Where have all the Natural, forest, water, marine and mineral resources
gone? Who makes use of the bounty
of solar energy? Where goes the huge
wind energy?
For an answer, we have to first understand the Process of
Development of the Nation. The entire
Process of Development is so closely linked to that of the interests of the
elites in the Country! If the elites interests are taken care of,
there could be a Development Project or a Scheme. Otherwise, no Scheme or Project, however good is even
concievable! The interests of the
elites are important. Who
are these elites? They were all those
brahmins, baniyas, kshatriyas and kayasths who were till recently, to be
specific just five or six decades ago used to be unemployed and run behind the
slightest shade of white skin, hoping it to be the ruling colonial British or
French or Portugese. It is the children
of those unemployed good for nothing bloody fellows! They are those in Politics, Govts, Administration, Police,
Foreign Service, Acdemics and Field Units like the Revenue Fellows, Engineers
and Doctors! The requirements needs and aspirations of
the poor or the masses is not the requisite factor for any Developmental
Programme!
How can the elite Development be ensured, when they shy
away from work that requires physical efforts and causes stresses and
strains? How then to develop, or evolve
a Project or a Scheme for elite development without physical work, and without
causing any stresses and strains? Elites
development is still possible only when the People are forced to work as in the
past, lured or fooled to work as in the present, and be sucked in to work in
the future liberal globalised market where the people will not be allowed both
the freedom and time to think! So,
the single common factor in the past
present and future is that the People must work, and work the poor, a
must! That is essential and inevitable,
not only for their own poor miserable living conditions, but also for producing
sufficiently more to facilitate the luxuries of life and the comfortable living
conditions of the elites, and also to
meet the elites other needs! So
everything that happens in this Copuntry is for the well being of the elites
and their development. The wretched of
the earth - the poor and the Dalits must work, toil, and suffer patiently and
in silence! This can only be ensured in
a Country where there is no love for work, or respect for the workers. How can one ensure this? Simple!
By keeping the Workers Poor Sick and Hungry!
The entire Economy of any Nation depends on
the work and production of their Workers!
And hence the health and well-being of their workers! We all
know this! If the elites do not work,
someone else has to do their shares of work also. That is why the workers work more always and endlessly, while the
elites don't work, gossip, chit-chat, go to movies, clubs, theater, music, and
if nothing else, for a walk! They try to
digest the indigestible food they had stolen from the workers and eaten for
taste, without even feeling hungry! Hence the need for workers and make them do their work and also
more and more work - the elites share, for the elites luxury, greed and for the
elites perversions! Since the workers
work and a few others don't, the few cheats who avoid work become the
elites!
If the workers are to continue their work,
then they should not be allowed to become happy comfortable and self-sufficient
by any chance! Hence they have to be
kept poor and suffer shortages!
Therefore it is inevitable that the poor are the workers, and the
workers are the poor! This, the logic
of reality, and the basis of poverty and hunger! All the
poor, even though they are poor, because they are workers, are the foundations
of the Nation and its economy! The
moment one ceases to be a poor, one will refuse to work. That is the order of the Indian
Society! In fact the rewards of the
economy is such that a worker is paid less, and kept poor deliberately, when
compared to his supervisor, who does not work, but supervises the work, or
polices the worker working and work!
The superviser does nothing, but plays the role of a middleman between the
worker and the elites. He is basically
a worker, or generally hails from the ranks of the worker, but is now an agent
of the non-working elites. He is thus a
policeman, or a watch-dog. This is the
root cause of India slowly emerging to be a Police State, and silent
Dictatorship under the Cover of Democracy, the most populous Democracy in the
World!
The moral and incentive is, stop work to earn more, cease
to be a worker to grow rich! And the cultural ethos of the Country is such
that, if one is not poor, then there is no need to do any work! Since there is the need for the elite to
ensure that the people work, there is an inescapable need to keep the people
poor. One can keep the people poor, only by by denying them due and adequate
wages. Also there is the need to take
away their produce by force, compulsion and lure of a good price, even if it is
otherwise much low. They should be
stopped from going to the market and fix or demand their own prices! And even
if a worker goes to market to sell his produce, he should not be allowed to become
a trader or a regular businessman, but be kept an helpless seller looking for a
some buyer at some price! In short the
worker should not be allowed to have his way, or any say in fixing the prices,
or in selling his goods and services!
He should not be allowed to have a fair price, a reasonable income and
adequate money! Otherwise, the worker
will no more be poor! When they are
not poor, they will cease to work! Even
if they work, they will not work for the evil elites. Hence, it is inevitable for the elites that the working people of
our Country had to be kept poor for ever!
Thus even the market forces are not to be really allowed in our
Country!
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Adopted from the
Telugu Weekly, JANAMITRA, published from Yanam, Union Territory of Pondicherry,
located in the midst of the East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh.
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