ABSTRACT
The intensity of the poverty and the inequality in India suggested that people were impotent to do anything. And in a sense that was right: the problem was far beyond the capacity of a few individuals to change. Personal initiatives are hopelessly inadequate to the scale and complexity of the problem. It would be better if some of my resources should be re-channelled anonymously through the taxation system to Munuswamy and his kind. That would be both less patronising and more likely to have positive results than impulsive individual giving. It would be good if Munuswamy were to be taken care of - and care is one of the things he needs - by skilled, wise and gentle people on the author's behalf and as representatives of the broader community. It is about how certain things may be expressed in policy and in social structures as well as in personal and small group behaviour.
