"भूख -- तुम्हारे लिए होगी एक दर्दनाक मौत की इबारत
हम तो हैं आढ़तिये हमारी खड़ी होती हैं इसी पर इमारत
हम हैं नेता हमारे लिए है हर भूख से मरनेवाला मुर्दा बस महज एक मुद्दा
हमारी तो है राशन की दूकान
खरीद सको तो खरीदो बरना तुम्हारी भूख से हमें क्या काम
सुना है आप डॉक्टर हैं सरकारी, आप भी खाते हैं घूस की तरकारी
डॉक्टर की राय में भूख से मौत नहीं होती मौत तो खून की कमी से होती है
मानवाधिकार आयोग का अध्यक्ष तो वह होता है जिसके घूस खाने से पूरा देश ही रोता है
घूस की डकार लेकर वह बताता है कि भूख से मौत बहुत बुरी बात है पर उसका प्रतिशत कम और औसत ज्यादा है
आपके समझ नहीं आई होगी उनकी यह बात पर देश भी अभी नहीं समझ पाया है
क़ानून के जानकार बताते हैं कि संविधान में भूख दर्ज ही नहीं है अतः असंवैधानिक है
भूख लेखकों कवियों लफ्फाजों के लिए है साहित्य का कच्चा माल
एनजीओ वाले भूख के नाम पर जो दूकान चलाते हैं उसके लिए "भूख" एक शुभ सा समाचार है
किसान फसल बो कर भूख मिटा रहा है और हम
और हम भूख उगा रहे हैं
देखना एक दिन फसल बो कर भूख मिटा रहा किसान भूखा मर जाएगा
और हमने तो शब्दों से कागज़ पर जो भूख की फसल बोई है और पर पैसे का खेत लहलहाएगा
पर याद रहे --भूख में जिन्दगी बेहद सुन्दर होती है
कभी देखा है फ़न फैलाए सांप
डाल पर उलटा लटक कर फल कुतरता तोता
चोंच से दाना चुगते चिड़ियों के बच्चे
शिकार का पीछा करता चीता
दूध पीता बछड़ा
हाथ में हथियार लेकर अधिकार के लिए लड़ता भूखा आदमी
वैसे ही जैसे जिन्दगी के महाभारत में हाथ में रथ का पहिया ले कर खड़े हों कृष्ण." -----राजीव चतुर्वेदी
World Hunger Facts - Submitted by Danny
› In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called
"absolute poverty".
› Every year
15 million children die of hunger.
› Throughout the 1990's
more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
› For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day
for 5 years.
› The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site
at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
›
One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture.
› The Indian subcontinent has nearly
half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy.
› Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion
- a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF.
›
3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
› In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that
one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.
› In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991
46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.
› The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks
23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.
› One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed
hungry every night.
› Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are
malnourished.
› In 1997 alone, the lives of at least
300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.
› Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the
Black Death.
› About
183 million children weigh less than they should for their age.
› To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only
US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.
› The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the
combined GNPof all the least developed countries on the planet.
› Every
3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger.
› It is estimated that some
800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
