What would your life be like?
Two young men wanted to understand, and so they did a little experiment. They went to live in an Indian village.
They ate parboiled rice, a tuber and banana and drank black tea: a balanced diet was impossible on the Rs. 18 a day which their briefly adopted ‘poverty' permitted. They found themselves thinking of food the whole day. They walked long distances, and saved money even on soap to wash their clothes. They could not afford communication, by mobile and internet. It would have been a disaster if they fell ill. For the two 26-year-olds, the experience of ‘official poverty' was harrowing.
As one commenter observes, these young men didn't have to work for their money, so their particular experience was much less harrowing than it is for those who live this every day and for whom there is no escape.
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