The 'Untouchable'

You might be thinking that I am writing about the movie or some corporate or even political society... nothing close!

I was in bahrain last few weeks ago and was watching the National Geographic in my hotel room and the documentary on them and program was titled The ‘untouchables’.

They are the poorest the low caste society in India and they are labeled, the ‘untouchables’... they work as labourer either in the construction site, mines or at the padi fields.



National Geographic interviewed one of them, Mr. Krishnan.

Krishnan is a 56 years old man and a family man. He live in a small old hut with his wife and his 4 kids. His job is at the padi field as a rat hunter!

The sad part of his job is that he have been a rat hunter for all his life (since he was 5 years old). All of them been eating rat to survive as they only get so little money for the job for a living. In fact few of his neighbour who also shares the same fate as him also eat rat as they is no way for them to buy chicken, etc in the market.

They will catch the rat and burn them and once the fur easy to be taken out then they will cut it like a chicken and cooked it with curry and eat with rice that been donated to them.

Even his 4 yrs old gdaughter eating it happily as she might think that that’s the only thing (meat) available in this world.

I felt very sad helplessly in my hotel room to see all this unbalanced world as we have human being who live like this and we have humans who lives in richness and fame...

But one thing that i dont understand is that why cant anyone help this people by teaching them on how to plant some vegetables and give them small piece of land near their huts so that they can eat that as its better than eating rats!

I remembered watching one program in TV3 (i think its called bersama mu or something) where there is one family in one of the states in malaysia eating snails for a living coz of their poor living conditions. I mean we are talking about Malaysia here! But ofcourse the 'bersama mu' team give them food and money.. BUT they should have teach them on how to plant vegetables instead of giving rice and money that will not last!

This is one of the thing that make me think that why cant all of us bring some balance so that the big rich and famous human beings realize that there is no balance and theres is suffereings all around us!

Hopefully one by one will start to share some of their wealth and give directly to this people some good alternative way of surviving by giving them basic training on how to farm with a small piece of land near their huts to start with! or even
work by giving some livestock or something as I believe if there is a will theres always a way do it!

For more story on the untouchable, google them or please visit:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0306/feature1/

equalwrites.blogspot.com/2009/09/untouchable.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5JkfYcxiQ8

http://jmk2b.multiply.com/journal/item/30