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people. The hearth is not being lighted in poor families due to
terrible dearness. Sisters are restless due to this dearness. The
money which was once sufficient to run the household for one
complete month, is found to be insufficient even for a week. A
poor child’s body needs protein, which can be got from pulses,
but pulses have become a thing hard to find. What will happen
to these poor people? If you speak the truth, you are termed
uncivilized. If you talk to the government in Delhi about rising
costs, you are given certificates like irrational, illogical,
uncivilized and what not.

Not only me, but all people, including the opponents, know
that these poor welfare fairs are powerful, it is their faith; and I
have held these poor welfare fairs to offer prayers to the soul. It
is a meaningful effort to bring together truth, inherent capability,
underlying dreams, in order to bring awareness in the life of
poor people.

*Edited extracts of speeches delivered in different poor welfare fairs.