Indian Poverty And Genocide In Kashmir

Western countries say India is a secular state where democracy prevails, but ground realities today belie the claim. Democracy, as American president Abraham Lincoln interpreted, stands for the government of the people, by the people and for the people—it means an administrative set-up determined to provide economic justice to and work for the common man’s welfare.
That is what one ought to bear in mind while assessing the socio-economic progress of a country. So, let us see from this angle things happening in various parts of India, Jammu & Kashmir and the rest of the region.
Poverty has been spreading fast in India over the years, driving hundreds of thousands below the poverty line and to starvation. Any keen-sighted visitor with the human heart and mind will return home disappointed and depressed with a prayer for the Indian farmers compelled to sell their wives and daughters under financial burden.