Reality check: Brazil and China have been praised, but India criticised, in a new report that evaluates the efforts of developing countries to tackle hunger
Is this what we call progress? Have we forgotten Gandhiji's Talisman?
"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."
- One of the last notes left behind by Gandhiji in 1948, expressing his deepest social thought.
