Another View

So where have the 4,00,000 homeless people gone? Difficult to know sitting in Bangalore. And no one writes about that aspect.

"exiled in cremation grounds among the remains of dead, near garbage dumps,"

from the Tehelka article doesn't really account for that huge number. I ask my nephew from Bombay who is here for the holidays. A 16 year old boy. He says the poorest must have gone back to their villages - about half of the total. He also says the people living in the slums are not all that poor. Why? They have bank accounts. His logic must be if they have bank accounts they must have enough money in them. I too have heard tell of cable TV in each home. So why don't they move out of the slums? They don't want to pay anything for it, he says.

So does some of the blame fall on them? Who knows.