While politicians siphon off huge sums of money, these urban poor in New Delhi only want to siphon off a little water, for their entire days' needs. Just a single jerry can will have to do, for a full family.
See the power of siphoning and just how a siphon works, with this video...
Height of desperation: No water for the Indian masses
A young girl fights off competition in the hope of filling her single recycled oil drum with water. She scrabbles into the waiting crowd to place a pipe within the water tanker, then sucks deeply in order to siphon the water into the drum...
The Indian summer is a difficult landscape to negotiate for the best of us, but for people living life at the poverty line, it is something else altogether. For all those Congress government tag-lines about 1 lakh crores spent on NREGA and poverty alleviation, when you see such images you realize that some things will never change in India!
The babus and mantris living in Lutyens' Delhi have it all - water, electricity, broad leafy tree-lined roads, security staff, contingents of CISF security staff, black cats and commandos, Agusta Westland helicopters, Airbus corporate jets and Bombardiers, MP LAD funds, railway official level position-giving slush-funds, BRT contracts, Commonwealth Games dirty money, mining contracts in Goa and Karnataka - you name it. Incredible India - it defies logic.
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