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The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

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Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions… M.K. Gandhi. Then the father of the nation goes on to say that we will feel our doubts melt away, profound thoughts of a great man, and relevant more so today than any other time, I read a statistic a few months ago that in the world 28 million people commit suicide every year, that is about one person killing himself every 30 seconds, that means by the time I finish this article about a 100 people would have been dead. Yes, that would be a tragedy won’t it, this reminds me of another quote,”Death of a person is a tragedy, death of a hundred, a statistic” and that is what our country has been reduced to, statistics, here are some, from 1997 to 2008 199,13