And this is only in one state, the bigger picture is far more horrible.
http://www.indiatogether.org/2005/oct/chi-malnour.htm
Kids steeped in hunger, while officials fiddle
Around 80,000 children in Madhya Pradesh are suffering from severe malnutrition. So stark is the situation that one evaluation report has said that even if the children were saved, they may go blind due to lack of vitamin A. Sachin Kumar Jain chronicles continuing negligence in government departments in M.P.
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I hope Allah helps these poor souls:( Aameen.
Really sad to see things such as these appearing in a country which considers its self a future super-power.
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Abdali,
Worry about your starving poor miyan.
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They (Hindus) cannot really call themselves a future superpower with these medals shining on their chests, simple is that
According to a news from jang in todays paper, Indians are investing in a project to build a temple in Pakistan. In fact they are reviving “hindutva” and in doing so have forgotten to first feed the starving kids.
May be they have cost containments and they have to relocate funds to such projects, cutting them back from the food fund 
Jai Hind
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ah Pakistanis have no right to say crap about anything. Atleast they (indians) are making progress. What do we have?... a dictator and a nation full of fools like the ones on this forum that point out evil in others. The only way to make progress is to improve something in us... rather than point out something wrong in others. Here is one of the quotes from my favourite indian sufi Hazrat Inayat Khan:
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"Our worst enemy is our self, our faults, our weaknesses, and our limitations. And our mind is a traitor. It hides our faults even from our own eyes, and points to other people as the reason for all our difficulties. Thus it constantly deludes us, keeping us unaware of the real enemy, and urging us against others, to fight them, making us think that they are our enemies. "
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And to answer mr abdali and all those propakis and prohindians
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"...avoid words, words from which differences and distinctions arise. Words can never express the truth fully. Words promote argument. All the differences between religions are differences of words"
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I find much wisdom and peace in his words :). Hope it may induce the same in you all.
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^ Waisey aap ki baat main wazan hai.............
Yeh, we have a dictator which is acting on American instruction.......baat to theek hai
BUT
The topic is not this. Topic is starvation in Indian kids, right?
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I am thanful to these Pakistan friends for their sympathy for Indian children.....When I look at slums anywhere in Indian cities, and at the same time listen Indians boasting of our movement towards becoming a Super Power....May be we want to show the world something new....'contrast'.
Can Pak citizens reveal us some model solution.......I will not purchase their role model where a majority of poor children is drug adict.
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True it is a matter of concern for all well meaning Indians in this country. The gap between the rich and the poor is widening and something has to be done to stem the tide. In the south many corporates are actively involved in providing the basic necessities to the rural folks. A begining is being made while the same cannot be said about some of our neighbours who wallow in self righteousness forgetting about their own brethern who are languishing as drug addicts !!!
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Despite all my differences with you, let me admit here.
This is the first time you have turned the table over in a sensible way. Din’t become defensive. Excellent anjaan, good mature comment buddy… First time I am feeling I am pushed to write something considering the issue as a problem of starvation…
Yes, we can talk about the solution but lets first talk about the causes. What is your perception about the “causes” of this problem?
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Well, your problem is that you associate everything bad in India to ‘Hindus’. Whereas, I will never associate the problem of your ‘drug addict’ children to Islam or Muslims.
You want to know the causes…there are many. Corruption, poverty, un-education, population growth etc!
You want to know the solution…there is one…
Transparent democracy…Any idea what is this?
Ps, well, you are wrong if you think that I need a character certificate from you.
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That has to be most stupid thing I’ve ever read. 80% of Lemmingland is Hindu while a miniscule number of Pakistanis and Muslims are drug addicts. It’s only natural to associate the going ons in lemmingland to hindoos. I mean, what an utterly idiotic statemnt to make!
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I have no objection. Please go ahead…Do you know majority of Muslims in India live below poverty line, have no standard living, majority lives in slums and are totally illiterate…I do not know how they understand holy Quran.
Situation is same in Bangladesh and in all African countries…Now you are welcome to blame Islam!
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"Our worst enemy is our self, our faults, our weaknesses, and our limitations. And our mind is a traitor. It hides our faults even from our own eyes, and points to other people as the reason for all our difficulties. Thus it constantly deludes us, keeping us unaware of the real enemy, and urging us against others, to fight them, making us think that they are our enemies. "
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Beautiful. It takes some intellect and humility to understand these words. This is true 'religion', not worshipping a book or statue and claiming moral superiority.
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If your heart was really going out to the kids you would not have dragged religion or cultural identity into this. Honestly, this kind of argument is fine amonsgst fools. If you count yourself as one go right ahead. Otherwise heed the poets words, ‘religion is nothing but a difference in words’.
Now then, what do you think can be done to improve the lot of Indian kids? Can you come up with an original idea without dragging IT sector or religion into it?
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Well, it is you Indians who have to decide what topic has to be referred to whom in what context. If I use “Indians” it is not acceptable because those whom a certain issue does not pertain to, cry hard for dragging them in. If I use Hindus, it is not acceptable either cause others, despite being non-hindus take those comments on them as Indians.
Looks like there is great deal of confusion among the dwellers of India about what everybody should be regarded as………………
Second, if you don’t wanna take a compliment, its upto you, What can I do? BTW, I am not giving any character certificate to you, you already have an identity of your own, that you yourself have developed in this forum.
Metro,
What are you trying to prove here, Secularity of India??? Its very evident that you have co-related two of my comments which were written in two different contexts to make another point that I am dragging religion and cultural identity into this… I cannot make sense out of your comment really. Do you know what are you talking about? How do you thing these two are not important?
You Indians have a preconception that fails to give any importance to religion and cultural identity.
Poets words, “Religion is nothing but difference in words” I guess you need to re-consider your opinion about religion before you come up with such a stupid suggestion. You seem to put a curtain on your thinking about those whom I referred to as reviving “Hindutva”………….. Poets also write nudity, vulgarity etc. Should we believe in those words too?
And even if you blame me of bringing religion and cultural identity in this issue, then, please read BELOW what another of your indian fellow, anjjan is writting…
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March 2004: Recent evidence suggests that undernutrition levels in India are among the highest in the world. The National Family Health Survey data shown above are an example. At the time of the survey 30% of young children had fever, 20% had diarrhoea, and 20% had an infectious cough. **Worse still, while the overall state of nutrition and health in India is bad enough, the situation is even worse in the poorer states, not to speak of the more deprived regions within these states. **
In Bihar:
In Orissa:
In the more deprived regions of these states, the situation can only be described as a humanitarian emergency. Consider for instance Kusumatand, a scheduled-caste hamlet in Palamau district, Jharkhand. In a random sample of 21 households:
**Jean Dreze **
March 2004
**Sources: **
SOURCE: http://www.indiatogether.org/photo/2004/pov-malnutr.htm
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Lets look at the defense budget of India....................
Defense Budget: 1999-2000
Allocated Expenditure Rs.45, 6940 million ($10.5 billion)
Revised Estimates Rs.48, 5040 million
Defense Budget: 2000-2001
Projected Defense Expenditure Rs.58, 5870 million ($13.4 billion)
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IS THIS THE SUPER POWER OF SUBCONTINENT???
Is this the plight of the proclaimed future superpower “Thaanedaar” of the subcontinent?
Lets come to terms with Metromomma and anjjan 
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India’s defense budget increased
February 28, 2001
Web posted at: 5:59 AM EST (1059 GMT)
NEW DELHI, India – Even as India’s economy flirts with recession, it has increased its defense budget by 75.39 billion rupees ($1.6 billion) for the year 2001-2002.
The announcement of a bigger defense spend came a day after India test-fired a surface-to-air missile from a remote testing range on the country’s remote eastern coast.
The revised military spend represents a 13-percent increase from last year’s budget of about 580 billion rupees ($12.28 billion), on top of last year’s increase of 28 percent.
Observers say it has opened the door to a much-needed modernization of the country’s military force, which with 1.1 million personnel, is one of the world’s largest.
However, the buying spree is not likely to ease tensions in Kashmir, where India and Pakistan have a long running dispute over territory in the mountainous region.
Pakistan and India have also tested nuclear weapons in recent
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/02/28/india.defensebudget/
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lol, and i thought since i am from MP so i know better.
80,000 eh, nice "number to" keep you guys feeling better about yourself.