Hunger

http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=623&Itemid=137&bandwidth=low(Photo of the year 2006)This photograph possibly conveys more than what i can say.Nervethless i still want to pen a couple of my thoughts on the subject also.

Hunger i think has'nt spared any living soul in this universe. Every living creature on this planet from the tiny ant to the mighty elephant, from the new born infant to the old paralysed man, from the mighty kings to the humble slave, would have suffered from the pangs of hunger at least sumtime or the oder in their life. Life is cruel most of the times. I vividly recall one of my friends often describing the scene he saw in the streets of kolkotta. A young urchin suffering from the pangs of hunger scavenging the dustbin on the street for any leftovers and in strak contrast well to do kid of the same age wasting food in the Big Mac.I think now you would agree with me that life is cruel.

Sometimes i wonder at the consience of the photographer. How can he take such cruel shots? Did he do anything at all to alleviate the kid's suffering? but who am i to question his conscience when i myself sometimes cannot answer the tug of my own conscience.Sometimes i wish i can stick to my promises of not wasting food . Promises that i make unto myself after seeing such moving pictures...But i am in a dilemna.I wasted my curry today afternoon when i found a strand of hair in it.Should i have eaten the curry ignoring the extra ingredient or should i have behaved in the civilised way i did just dumping the entire curry into the dustbin??? would that curry be consumed by some street urchin just that like the one that my friend happened to see?? would that have been his only meal for that day?? Can i justify that action unto myself?

Wayback when i was studying in a school in a christian convent we used to have a scheme which tried to help hungry street urchins. We had to give some rice howmuchever we can from a fistful to a sack of grains and it used to be distributed to the night shelters where these kids frequented. The community kitchens undertaken by different religions also deserves a pat on the back. The DOS(dahl,oil n sugar) scheme that runs in my town which collects the above 3 essential ingredients from the donors and hands them over to charitable organisations.If only more ppl culd come up wid such innovative ideas the world wuld definetely not be a hungry place anymore.But then how wuld we deal with the middle men who loot away the food material that is supposed to reach the hungry?

Can Hunger ever be eliminated? Can all kids eat their stomachfull without toiling and bending their backs for getting their rightful share of grub? when will a mother stop seeing the agony of her kid dying out of hunger?When will people stop begging for food?When will people stop fighting for food? Can any body answer these questions at all???