Tomorrow Never Dies
“Furthermore, he asked the committee members to make the new capital unique and slum free.” I read the line a few more times to confirm if I was reading it right. Yes ‘slum free’, like ‘bacteria free’, ‘pest free’? Well, no, this should have to be the 'slum-free' as envisaged by the several propitious-sounding poverty eradication programs set up by the government to provision basic social amenities to the urban poor, the slum dwellers. The words above had poured forth from a political wizard envisioning a master plan for the building-up of a full-fledged township which would soon take shape to become a brand new State capital. Curling back in to my couch and re-adjusting my tea cup to relieve the strain on my index finger, I muse on... ( ah...the woes of an arm-chair activist.. ) Well, who would want to live alongside slums anyway?.. The arm-chair aadmi flares up within and.. * ek tight thappad * . 'Who would want to live in slums anyway?'.. I correct m