Poverty
Girl kills herself over one rupee for meal
Reuters
Malda:
A 12-year-old Indian girl has hanged herself after being told by her impoverished mother she could not afford one rupee (nine fils) to buy food at school, officials said yesterday.
Sonia Khatun was upset after her mother, a widow, scolded her for asking for the money.
"She wanted just one rupee ... but her mother could not give her the money due to poverty," a government official said by phone from Murshidabad district in the eastern state of West Bengal. "She was hungry," he added.
She hung herself from a makeshift bamboo structure on Friday.
The girl and her mother were homeless and living under a tarpaulin sheet given by the West Bengal government which also supplied them meagre food rations.
By the way, one rupee is like 1/47th of an American dollar.
"Matai nir'e et ha-sof?"..."When will we see the end?"
- David Broza, in his song Yihyeh Tov [It will be good].
Reuters
Malda:
A 12-year-old Indian girl has hanged herself after being told by her impoverished mother she could not afford one rupee (nine fils) to buy food at school, officials said yesterday.
Sonia Khatun was upset after her mother, a widow, scolded her for asking for the money.
"She wanted just one rupee ... but her mother could not give her the money due to poverty," a government official said by phone from Murshidabad district in the eastern state of West Bengal. "She was hungry," he added.
She hung herself from a makeshift bamboo structure on Friday.
The girl and her mother were homeless and living under a tarpaulin sheet given by the West Bengal government which also supplied them meagre food rations.
By the way, one rupee is like 1/47th of an American dollar.
"Matai nir'e et ha-sof?"..."When will we see the end?"
- David Broza, in his song Yihyeh Tov [It will be good].