Hope!

 

Just found this picture while performing some ‘spring cleaning’ on my hard drive. It was taken on a rural trip organized by XLRI.

 

As part of our first-year curriculum, we’re supposed to spend a weekend in a village, in some of the poorest regions of India, in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Orissa. This picture was clicked in one such village.

 

Based on our experiences, we are then supposed to come up with ideas that can help improve the quality of life for these people, who are plagued by illiteracy, diseases, poverty, ignorance, the apathy of the government, and the terror of the Maoists (Naxalites).

 

So far, I’ve not been able to do much on that front, even though some other students have done a fair bit. You can read about their initiatives here.

 

But someday, the day shall come, when instead of only ‘Hope’, I can promise them much more…