Outside the Military Hospital

yup it really matters that weather one is sick or healthy ,but wht if health is even out of question only because its not affordable

Nicely written! One can almost visualize these very different characters passing by the viewer’s vantage point. In our part of the world, we have “dog days of August”, but they are nowhere near in ferocity to “oven-hot April day”! Also, it must get very stifling inside those black burqas. The line between the powerful and the powerless, the healthy and the sick, must be a very thin line, indeed! Also, God is not really equally forgiving (otherwise why would there be such a stark line between the two!)

Re: # 3

Beejay

I feel God`s forgiveness is unquestionable. The stark contrast between the ``haves`` and the ``have-nots`` is foremost a product of a fatalistic fever gripping and ravaging the ``soulless`` leaders of emerging markets. To a large extent we are the architects of our destiny, and the vagaries of inequity prostitute nations not due to Divine Will, or the lack thereof, but remain a catalyst of deep-seated underlying geo-political ills.

It is an open debate, to fellow ``chowkis`` as to how we might balance these ills ? Rather than fatalistically finger-pointing at Divinity. Which these days seems so much a-la-mode.

Bina Shah

Your piece “Outside the military hospital” has ounces of compellingly inveigling allure as it explores the schism between the “haves” and “have-nots” in the “Land of the Pure”. You acidly portray the power and income disparity between rulers and the ruled.

However on a rather more instructive note, could you enticingly suggest ways of bridging this all-pervasive schism of justice ? Surely the sun, in its infinite unkindness, can find ways to evaporate inequities?

Poor are so poor
cant`t write their miseries
Rich have all the cures
can`t deliver them
But can paint
Miseries of poor
O` poor! how pure
What a way to lure
O` Poor, O`Poor
Find your own cure