Pangs of Hunger

Last night at around 3.00 am my grand-daughter started crying inconsolably.
Initially we waited for my son and daughter-in-law to calm her down. When they failed, my wife and I then joined them in trying to soothe her.
We thought she may be having a stomach ache and gave her medicines for that.
She continued crying.
She was having stuffy nose and thought that she may be crying because of difficulty in breathing. We warmed some mustard oil and put a few drops in her nostrils.
She continued crying.
It was 3.45 am then.
We started feeling hungry.
It struck us that maybe she too may be hungry.
We warmed some milk and then fed her through the bottle.
It was only then that she quietened down and went to sleep.
We realized that she was hungry all along and could not say what she wanted and so cried.
This got me thinking.
If hunger can so disturb a child who has been fed just 3 hours ago, how must it be disturbing the millions of people who go without meals for the whole day or if they are able to eat in the morning they cannot eat in the evening. They go to bed with just a glass of water to fill the stomach. The water goes out of the stomach in half an hour and they are hungry again. The whole night they must be tossing about as they cannot sleep for the hunger and the children who cannot say anything just cry.
All our political promise ROTI, KAPADA and MAKAN during the elections.
It so sad, that even 60 years after independence we cannot give all our people even two square meals.
On the other hand we can continue feeding the fat pigs who go under the name of government employees. They get a fat salary with DA and perks. Then they earn money through corrupt practices and then every 5 years we reward them by giving up to 50 % increase in salaries by way of Pay Commission Awards.
How can we have any funds left for the poor when these 15 % government employees consume 60 % of the resources raised by the government?
Unless corruption and Pay Commission Awards are abolished we will always have poor people sleeping on hungry stomach.
We will always have Maoist, fighting the system