(abstract from Kiran Karnik's blog. To read the whole article visit http://kirankarnik.wordpress.com/2009/11/
YESTERDAY,5,000 children — all below five years old — died in India. Not only yesterday, but day after day, about 5,000 children die. When some 3,000 people died in New York on 9/11, eight years ago, the world changed. When about 175 people were killed in Mumbai in November 2007, the nation was energised into action; a 100-day plan of action was announced, one chief minister and the Union home minister were, in effect, fired. Both these tragic terrorist events rightly generated anger, revulsion and action. Popular activism replaced apathy, governments moved quickly and decisively, and all agencies were mobilised. Why, then, does the horrifying daily mass-death of thousands of children not shock us into similar action? What causes this benumbing of sensitivity?
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