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His own state looks away, others chip in to help

ALLAHABAD, MAY 4: Monetary assistance has started pouring in for poor and ailing Amar Kant, an internationally acclaimed Hindi litterateur who had to sell off his original manuscripts at throwaway prices for buying food and medicines. After a report in The Indian Express highlighted his ill health and poor fina ....Read more

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No Hope for IndiaBy: Parikshit | Friday , 12 Sep '08 19:14:54 PM Reply | Forward wow if a noted litterateur can face such a treatment from the govt, what should we the small people expect?And then we blame brain drain. We outside India are sick people who keep wishing to return to our homeland to make it a better place. I dont see that happening. how can I have hope when police let a man kill a kid and then let him escape, when a goon challenges the top cop of mumbai to come to the streets, and the govt is biased based on race and caste. No sir I dont have any hopes from this country. I dont see a better India in my lifetime at least.

callous state govts......By: indian | Friday , 12 Sep '08 15:22:17 PM Reply | Forward The UP Govt will come to the rescue of people only on the basis of their caste orientation.It has money to squander on Mayawati's statues but not on education,roads,maintainence of law and order or even for monetary help to eminent Hindi litterateurs............Such states have to be further divided into smaller administrative units for better governance.Their big size creates all sorts of vested interests and encourages corruption.It is this that leads to millions of their hapless citizens to migrate to other states for sustenance.

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