The Poor, The Black and The Dead.

It official, India has more billionaires than the U.K.We also have more poor than the whole of Europe put together.There are different versions to the story, the World Bank says that about 35 % of Indians live under the poverty line, economists like Surjit Bhalla say that the poor hardly constitute 13 %.I'd like to invite opinion on that, what do you think defines as "being poor".My cousin thinks anyone who doesn't have a cell phone is poor, she's 5 and has recently got one.
This is in response to a colleague, who remarked that Black isn't a colour, its simply nothing.
Shes partially right, Black isn't just a colour.Its a philosophy, a way of life.Close your eyes and what colour do you see, Black.Its the colour of your inner self, your thoughts reflected upon you.Black is the prevailing background for the movie of thoughts playing in your mind.
Black is a colour of acceptance, it accepts all the other colours and still doesn't lose its shade.The night sky is black, its a reflection of our world.Its Black.
Black signifies change, theres a reason you move from darkness to light.To move towards light you need darkness in the first place.Black gives infinity hope about its existence.
Terry Schiavo died a few hours back, biologically dead.They took off the tube and because she couldn't eat on her own, she died.She didn't do a lot when she was "alive", barely nudging survival.Can you call Michael Schiavo’s decision to remove Terri’s feeding tube "murder"?, Yes. It seems selfish to hook her up to a machine in the faint hope that she’ll return to form.This guy has endured fifteen years of endless headaches and lawsuits. That’s love. True, he moved on and started another family. But he also turned down a million-dollar offer to walk away and wash his hands of this. It’s hard to imagine him doing that unless he truly believes this is what Terri would have wanted.
On the other hand, is this what she wanted? Michael Schiavo says yes; Terri’s parents say no. I’m cannot question her husband’s motives, but I understand why her parents are. After all, his decision to remove her feeding tube is based on something she told him over a decade ago. No one will ever be able to prove it.He could've walked away and left her with people ready to feed her, but he did not.He believed that this was what she wanted.I'm not taking sides.