In my village, dalit and landless,
the elders talk about 50 years ago. There were cows in every household as
agriculture depended on cows. There was milk for all children as there were no
collection centres to buy the milk for urban areas. The tanks had water and
there was fish, crabs (ours is a dry/ tank-irrigated area). Paddy was grown in
surplus and people ate well.
Today borewells have exhausted our groundwater, there is no agriculture, every drop
of milk is sold away in an effort to deal with a monetisaed economy, and children are all anaemic. Yes, there are TVs, and cell
phones, and cement houses. Thats modernity and development - socialist or
capitalist or communist.
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