Friday, April 23, 2004
Landless laborers (whole families) are involved in the entire process, from sowing the seeds to the final harvesting. To use a Management expression, they provide end-to-end solutions, but the returns they get from the landlords are on an average only one-eighth of the produce value!
The urban-rural contradiction, with allusions of poverty in villages and prosperity in the cities, is often rather misleading. What do we really own? Is the desire for ownership, moral, ethical and justified?
Life for Rent, and often, the only thing we own, is an entry on blogspot.
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