Suicide, trying to become an option!

"Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country."           - Franklin D. Roosevelt 

Since I live in India, I'm going to blog about some of the problems happening in our country. I know that everywhere you go, people are gonna shout about the common problems like, 'Corruption', 'Poverty', 'Unemployment', 'Inflation' and what not. But today, I'm gonna blog about the farmers of our nation and the problems they go through.

Recently, India had suffered through the worst drought ever in the past 50 years. (That's what news says) And due to that, many farmers gave up their lives. Not only that but villagers are also dying due to thirst. Is this what we want? That the people of our nation die everyday. Is this what our future is? That the poor will become poorer and the rich will become richer? Well, I don't think so. 

How did the people of our nation contribute?

Well, I have a really less knowledge about it. But, the schools in our nation asked the students to bring bottles of water so that it could be sent to help the small villages and farmers who suffered through the drought. Now, here is my question, Why didn't the government made it mandatory for all the schools to provide a certain amount of water? Didn't they get an idea like this? I know the government has a lot of other things to do, but it is a democratic nation! Democracy means people's rule! And the people choose their governments, so shouldn't the government first take care of the people who chose them? 

I did a bit of researching and found out that there's a site where you can pay and donate some amount of water for the people. Now this is not just for the citizens of India but everywhere else in the world. And not gifts related to water but even electricity, food and much more!

Here's the link in case anybody wants to check it out:

http://www.practicalpresents.org/index.php

Is drought the only reason why farmers are committing suicide?

NO! Not at all. There has been a lot of injustice done to farmers due to which they commit suicide. We all know that, farmers harvest crops and sell them to the government or to other people and keep some for themselves. But due at times, due to some problems, the farmers don't get the correct price for their crops i.e. they are under payed. Due to this, they have nothing to eat all year round and also no money for their families. Did you know, that at some places, these farmers are so poor and have nothing to eat that they have to eat 'RATS'? Well, disgusting, isn't it?

However, in this case, the government has tried their best to give the proper price of their grains to the farmers. Also, there have been many unknown people who donated tons of money for these people. Which is a good thing.

These people are the 'Legends' out there!

Don't you agree with me? 

P.S. I know I'm not that frequent in blogging but I need a good topic to blog about, right? I just can't post anything!