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A Dhaka press report said: Although Bangladesh registered an overall economic growth in excess of 6 per cent per year and carried one million
tonnes of public stocks of cereals every year during 20072011, over 20 per cent of its population did not have access to minimum dietary
requirement during this time, said senior economist Quazi Shahabuddin. Many people suffer from chronic hunger in Bangladesh, making the
country home to one of the largest undernourished population in the world, said Shahabuddin, also a former director general of Bangladesh
Institute of Development Studies. (New Age, Dhaka, October 16, 2014, Hunger stalks millions despite growth in food production: World Food
Day today) The inconsistent picture is not only from Bangladesh and from England. It is in India, and it is in Nepal and South Africa also. It is
the overall reality in the world system.
Do not the facts reaffirm the reality of inequality, and the demands the working people struggle for: affordable better food, affordable better
health care, affordable better environment, safer life, affordable leisure-time? The inequality turns cruel if one compares this with profit stories of
health care and food industries.
The cited facts are fresh but the reality of inequality is old. It is an old narration of the triumphal march of capital with its devastating power.
Farooque Chowdhury is a Dhaka-based freelance writer.