The world is beautiful when you look at it. But it’s an ugly world also because, if you recall, that particular quotation from Tagore it was that “Fate has allowed humanity such a pitifully meagre coverlet that in pulling it over one part of the world, another had to be left bare”. So he was just stating as a matter of fact his position that there was not enough distributive justice in the world and that many people were fated to be deprived, to be hungry and naked and homeless which is what he observed during several of his trips in Bengal in and around the time of the first of the great famines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that is a very pessimistic view but it’s an important view to underscore that we do face tremendous disparities and inequalities in the world today and while inequality is a reality of life, inequity isn’t. So my point when I mention those data and figures to students is to underscore the fact that inequity is an unjust inequality. It’s something that we can do something about. We may not be able to change the social structures of the world that there will be the rich and there will be the middle class and the poor. But when the poor are deprived of basic rights and access to food, to health, to nutrition, to security through structural mechanisms, which are unfair, then that inequality becomes an unfair inequality called inequity. Every child born in this world today has a right to his or her fifth birthday and to a similar opportunity as a child grows up to be a school age kid or young adolescent girl as anybody else anywhere else in the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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