We still live in poverty. – Simranjit Singh Mānn
Punjab is seen as a prosperous state. But still our people are poverty stricken.
We are in the harvesting season. Wheat is being harvested largely by big Combines. As the Combines move, we see poor village women walking behind them. From their necks hang cotton bags.
Walking behind the Combines we see them picking up ears of wheat which the Combine throws out. Even little children collect these ears. With this collection of ears of wheat the poor try and meet their grain consumption for the year.
Since they have no thrashing machines to separate the wheat seed from the hay, they go to the nearest road where there is enough motor vehicle traffic. The ears of wheat they have collected, they put it on small heaps expecting the motorised traffic to run over these heaps, whereby the wheat is winnowed. This is how they make both ends meet.
Below is a picture of the heap of wheat, lying on the road, which will be winnowed when motor tyres run over it. Could there be any more humiliation for the human race which God has created as equal ?
A heap of wheat lying on the road to be winnowed by motor car tyres.
Simranjit Singh Mānn,
President,
Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar),
Email: simranjitsinghmann@yahoo.com
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