(1) It is sad that while rats eat grain from overflowing godowns, the poor all over India go to bed hungry. ..There are even reports of starvation deaths. As the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Freedman said: “If a government were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years, they would have a shortage of sand.”
Letter to the Editor, Reader’s Digest, (October 2003) from D.K.Vasudevan, via email
(2) Poverty remains our greatest problem. Economist Amartya Sen, too, describes the problem of poverty as one of “entitlement of access rather than the scarcity of good.” Government must solve this menace instead of ignoring the plight of its needy citizens.
Letter to the Editor, Reader’s Digest, (October 2003) from Shadaan Alam, Aligarh
Letter to the Editor, Reader’s Digest, (October 2003) from D.K.Vasudevan, via email
(2) Poverty remains our greatest problem. Economist Amartya Sen, too, describes the problem of poverty as one of “entitlement of access rather than the scarcity of good.” Government must solve this menace instead of ignoring the plight of its needy citizens.
Letter to the Editor, Reader’s Digest, (October 2003) from Shadaan Alam, Aligarh
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