We Live In Times Extreme Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Times extreme, we live oh on the ledge,
Glut gambolling with gloated shortage,
Farmers getting pittance,
Poor paying in big tonnes,
Profiteers pocketing pounds of wage,
We live in times extreme,
Life on prayer and dream,
And haply history turns her page.
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Shortage, of all, of onions and tomatoes, and prices kissing roofs! Only a few weeks back there was severe glut. Markets seem to be largely stage-managed with a surfeit of hoarders, agents, brokers, and sundry layers between a producer (farmer)and consumer. But it is as if nothing can be done.
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Happenings | 03.08.2017 |