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Give Me a Ticket for an Airplane
Monday May 21, 2001
- TITLE: "Give Me a Ticket for an Airplane" The opening line by a 1960's song "The Letter" sung by, I believe, the Boxtops
- " � crushing poverty �" Before you attack me for being too negative on Indian government and culture consider the following facts in an op-ed from this morning's "The Hindu" by the former Chief Justice of the Indian Supreme Court titled "A Nation in Disarray":
-- 268 million [Indians] do not have enough to eat and half the women aged 15-19 and three quarters of the children are anemic;
-- 90 percent of Indians spend $2 per day;
-- Nearly one-third of children under 16 are forced into labour;
-- 135 million people are denied access to primary health care;
-- 226 million are without safe drinking water [note: That is the equivalent of the entire population of the US unable to drink the water];
-- 640 million lack basic sanitation; and,
-- 50 percent of the world's illiterates live in India
Which article I found AFTER I wrote the opening of the column and which is why I am having a difficult time finding the charm here.
- Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
No Catchy Caption today. They will restart Wednesday.
Rich
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