News one corner – malnutrition death of a farmer :

Hardly any reader even put a cursory glance in the newspaper

Amongst thousands of population  daily found casualty

A death in a nondescript remote village appears nonentity;

May Ram or Rahim be whatever the deadman’s name

Obviously peripheral his livings much in shame

Like bonded labour working in big owner’s firm for a pittance

At days end back to his own tilted shack, he holds no grievance

One day overheard Mukhiyaji at chaupal loudly telling-

Next day at Sadar office for dole money registry starting,

Our man early morning set out no food to be ahead in the queue,

Unaware of Sarkari ways shuttling among tables for rescue:

Exhausted dejected finally walked back to his village shed –

While asleep the man found solace as peacefully dead.

~Shyamal Mukhopadhyay

Nagpur, India