(June 15,1942 / Aravayal, karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, South India)

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Sympathies dry

Poverty is not mother of grief.
The mother is disparity.
Prosperity cannot drive out grief.
Prosperity eliminates poverty.
With poverty elopes sympathy.
Suicides grow not from poverty
But from want of sympathy.
10.09.2006

Submitted: Saturday, May 16, 2009

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  • Ashraful Musaddeq (5/16/2009 10:39:00 AM)

    I do agree with your words.

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  • Samanyan Lakshminarayanan (5/16/2009 10:11:00 AM)

    A COMPASSION LESS CROWD CAUSES THIS...LOVELY SIR

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