Some Reflections on Poverty

Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani Our very urgent primary task is eradication of chronic and massive poverty, which is the legacy of our old India. We have inherited systemic poverty i.e. we have resigned ourselves to poverty and from tolerating deprivation we went to accepting poverty without fighting it. We explained it to ourselves as fatality. The fact that it also happened due to lack of social solidarity among the people is a matter of perplexity. We soared very high in spiritual elation while our feet were in sinking marshy mud of humiliating pover…