it is just the begining.......

Nostradamus predicted it, so did the Mayan kings and the Hindu mythology suggested the "kalyug". Maybe in the era of sci - fi and rocket science, people ignore the wisdom of our ancestors, but it seems that the dark prophecies are actually looming over us. Be it mother nature's toll, or food is becoming a scarcity, let alone man avenging against his brothers (?).It is a reality that we soon have to face.
Food- a necessity of life, but how many are actually being able to avail to this necessity? The distribution of food has however been lopsided, some countries have enough food to discard away and fill their litter boxes, and some are being barely able to have a mouthful. Who is supposed to be blamed? Have we mismanaged the food? Was there enough for everybody at first place?

A few weeks back I received a mail that listed the expenditure on food every week of families around the globe (the number of members varied from country to country). It was shocking and thought provoking, indicating the disparity that exists, where Germany topped the list, where a family of five spent USD $500 per week, at another corner of the world in Chad, a family of six spent USD $ 1.75 per week.

Every week I hear the UN issuing new statistics that provides with alarm9ing figures of how many children will die in Darfur due to malnutrition, or the rates of child mortality increasing in Somalia. And now with the food scarcity that has hot our lives, imagine what will happen to those who have bee witnessing this scarcity since their birth?

Another good example of disparity that comes across is that of India, India would boast of four of their nationals featured in the list of Forbes richest people in the world, that very day, BBC covered one of its stories where it said that there are number of villages in the country that have the nearest hospital is an hour away, child mortality stands at 80%.


How much are we contributing? We, as individuals, as citizens of our countries? Are we so ignorant hat we refuse to step outside the comfort of our cocoons?

Innumerable conferences, meetings have been conducted, the “powerful” countries (so they have been since World War 2), taking the same places as their predecessors took more than five decades back in the Prague summit and maybe discussing the same issue- War. So how far have we traveled, or developed in these fifty years? Have we gone beyond those issues? Is it not that we are falling deeper and deeper in the dungeons that have been created thanks to our own doings?