May 09, 2013 01:16 am | Updated 01:16 am IST
The report “Three lakh newborns last hardly a day” (May 8) was shocking. Beyond such statistics lies the untold agony that the mothers of such short-lived babies undergo. Their dreams stand shattered at the end of their pregnancy.
The disturbing increase of poverty in neo-liberal India has a lot to do with the policies of globalisation. We have a twin India — one that shines and the other that suffers.
S.V. Venugopalan,
Chennai
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