Alleviating poverty will cost money no one is ready to pay...

There are 300million or more Indians living below the poverty line - which the government has balanced at a pithy USD7.5 per month (or USD90 per annum). Assuming that on an average these 300 million souls would need USD30 per year to pull them above the waterline, one would need to pump USD 9 billion into the country every year, till such time poverty is 'alleviated'.

Now if we need to get everyone to sane levels of income - the minumum wage mark of USD375 per year, we'd need an additional /USD85 billion!

Who should we take this money from? Erstwhile colonists? Our own past politicians?

This continuing plight of a billion people across asian countries is worse than the holocaust...

But then strangely some of our 'self-made' (is there such a thing?) millionaires would rather buy a Formula One team than support, lets say, a rural school programme. The same folks whose fathers are rendered sozzled by this self-made millionaires' hooch. I think the team should be re-named 'Poor India'.

The sad, macabre, unjust fact of life is that for all of us to have what we do, someone MUST have less than we do... Dark, very dark truth...

Makes your skin crawl at times...