The poverty game

In this hallowed land of democracy, the poor remain poor; farmers commit suicide because they can’t pay off their debts; villages go without electricity, safe water or passable roads; the sick are treated like dirt in public hospitals and; slums are the only shelters for millions. How’s that possible? Why is it that, in spite of so much of tear-shedding and breast-beating for the aam admi, India continues to be burdened with so much poverty?

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