Comments on: A real life story…………. http://castory.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/a-real-life-story/ Talking and Listening Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:46:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: sidhu8 http://castory.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/a-real-life-story/#comment-80 sidhu8 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:21:32 +0000 http://castory.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-80 Its not the problem of dowry but how a measly sum of rupees can decide the fate of the present and the succeeding generations of poor families.They come here in order to pay off their debts but stay back as there is plenty of work and money all at the cost of depravement , indignity, humiliation ......I was thinking if these people in the remote areas could be connected and given micro credit as was shown in the 'discovery channel ' some time back .....as low as ten dollars to maximum three hundred dollars from a European country to villages in remote parts of africa....just enough to run their petty shops , handicraft.....food etc do you think such a thing can work here....this idea of offering micro credit was first started in Bangladesh by..............who also won the nobel prize for economics.......ofcourse there is the cost of technology..... Its not the problem of dowry but how a measly sum of rupees can decide the fate of the present and the succeeding generations of poor families.They come here in order to pay off their debts but stay back as there is plenty of work and money all at the cost of depravement , indignity, humiliation ……I was thinking if these people in the remote areas could be connected and given micro credit as was shown in the ‘discovery channel ‘ some time back …..as low as ten dollars to maximum three hundred dollars from a European country to villages in remote parts of africa….just enough to run their petty shops , handicraft…..food etc do you think such a thing can work here….this idea of offering micro credit was first started in Bangladesh by…………..who also won the nobel prize for economics…….ofcourse there is the cost of technology…..

]]> By: anu http://castory.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/a-real-life-story/#comment-72 anu Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:54:41 +0000 http://castory.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-72 What have they done to themselves?.............. Did the daughter Kalai precipitate this 'descent into chaos' situation for a her family and future generations? Had it been a son, who brought home a bride, vessels, cot and cash of thousands, would these sequence of irreversible downwardly spiraling events have happened? Had Kalai remained unmarried or had the man she married not demanded or had the society rejected the practice of dowry............. would this incident/celebration remain in the minds of this migrant family as the reason for their current state of living? Who knows........ Adding my own questions to the one Deeksha asks: Since, construction laborers move from one site to another site, do they have addresses, ration cards, voting rights, constitutional rights, do they exists at all? Forget their respective home state's responsibilities towards them, first, are they citizens of this country? Each and every institution of modern India meant to uphold the rights and well being of its citizens appears to or rather is dysfunctional for these people, right in the heart of a Hi-tech city. Education, health, labor, law, affirmative action................none have made a positive impact on their lives. These are people directly involved in the production of infrastructure of this city, they are not wastrels, and yet........ What have they done to themselves?………….. Did the daughter Kalai precipitate this ‘descent into chaos’ situation for a her family and future generations? Had it been a son, who brought home a bride, vessels, cot and cash of thousands, would these sequence of irreversible downwardly spiraling events have happened? Had Kalai remained unmarried or had the man she married not demanded or had the society rejected the practice of dowry…………. would this incident/celebration remain in the minds of this migrant family as the reason for their current state of living? Who knows……..

Adding my own questions to the one Deeksha asks:
Since, construction laborers move from one site to another site, do they have addresses, ration cards, voting rights, constitutional rights, do they exists at all? Forget their respective home state’s responsibilities towards them, first, are they citizens of this country? Each and every institution of modern India meant to uphold the rights and well being of its citizens appears to or rather is dysfunctional for these people, right in the heart of a Hi-tech city. Education, health, labor, law, affirmative action…………….none have made a positive impact on their lives. These are people directly involved in the production of infrastructure of this city, they are not wastrels, and yet……..

]]> By: deeksha2892 http://castory.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/a-real-life-story/#comment-71 deeksha2892 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:14:46 +0000 http://castory.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-71 i've been noticing these people for atleast nine years now.............. and its truely sad that nothing has been done to raise the standard of living of these people......i have played with their children, built sand castles with them as their parents used that very sand to build those countless houses.......i saw one of these kids after a very long time recently she was expecting and the conditions she lives in are not very different from what her parents lived in...........and the question that popped up in my head as i looked at her stomach was.............is it going to be any different for that life........ i’ve been noticing these people for atleast nine years now………….. and its truely sad that nothing has been done to raise the standard of living of these people……i have played with their children, built sand castles with them as their parents used that very sand to build those countless houses…….i saw one of these kids after a very long time recently she was expecting and the conditions she lives in are not very different from what her parents lived in………..and the question that popped up in my head as i looked at her stomach was………….is it going to be any different for that life……..

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