Deprivation in Raichur: Day 1

As part of my journalism studies the studies, I’ve headed out to Raichur with a team of others to cover deprivation in rural India. My experience in covering poverty so far has been either with one of the many places that I worked for as field visits, or during my work with Perambara last year.

I didn’t really know what to expect, since the stories I’ve heard about poverty in India were bad – and the ground reality of things were pretty different from the forms of poverty that we experience in Sri Lanka.

We Sri Lankans complain a lot about our education system – I’ve done so myself in this blog. Something that we notice in Sri Lanka, even in the most rural of places, is almost universal access to Primary education that you get. That is something that I don’t see happening in India, despite a mid-day meal consisting of rice and sambar (and occasional side dish of extra veggies) being served everyday thanks to the Government.

Some photographs from the first day are posted below. As always, they are released into the public domain. High resolution versions of the photos would be available upon request.

This post was written while I was in Raichur, but I didn’t get to upload it since India’s mobile connectivity kind of sucks. Doing it now, about a week later.

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