Drought of rain or humaneness!

Dirty wet small by lanes, full of green cattle refuse mixed with rain water sloshing the main entry points of every village I visit, rural India makes me question, who is actually progressing? People laughing and smiling at the camera with torn shirts, eating one meal a day, living off daily labor, employed for two to three weeks a year. The state of drought ridden Bundelkhand is shameful. At the same time in Mumbai our progressive metropolis, huge posters of the next upcoming television series "Jhansi Ki Rani". The famous girl/queen who hails from Jhansi (Bundelkhand), and who led the 1857 mutiny against the British is displayed. While Bundelkhand suffers in 2009, people on their television sets are glued to the soap opera of a young actress enacting the "Queen" who gave her life up for the freedom we enjoy.
I am no journalist my statistics are hearsay not confirmed, but what I surmise the root cause of the poverty and helplessness there is a combination of fraudulent government 65% and the nature driven drought 15% and the caste system 20%. Some snippets of my experience there I will try and put in words. Or let the pictures speak for themselves. Pics are still embargoed...let me begin with Mumbai...