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Sunil Jha, 24
President, Bihar Students Front, Delhi University




Photo: Sondeep Shankar/Saab Press

Tell us your dreams for India


August 23, 2003

'Many in my village can't manage two
meals a day'

The image of Bihar is so rotten in this country. The students of Bihar are victims. Whenever we go to any part of the country we are not given admission easily because colleges allege that our certificates are fake.

To fight the ill-treatment of Bihari students, I have formed this Front.

Young people in our state are very frustrated because of corruption and collapse of the system.

If you ask me what I want in life right now I would say: "Seize all the powers of bureaucrats, police, politicians and press." I don't trust any of them.

My dream for India is simple. I want do time ka khana [two meals a day] for all Indians.

I belong to Champaran district in Bihar. More than half my neighbours and relatives can't manage two meals a day. Only before and during the monsoon can they get enough food because when they work in the fields they get some grain from the landlords.

In this country if you have power only then will you have everything you want.


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The common people love the country and that is reassuring. When I left my village I cried, my villagers are so fond of their own land. Whatever may be rotten in our country we have a strong emotional attachment to it.

As told to Sheela Bhatt

   
'India will not change much in the next few years'

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