The poor child cried pointing at the mango.

Like every ordinary day the greengrocer opened his shop and wiped his fruits and vegetables with a wet cloth to give them an extra-shine. That was a Tuesday, the weekly market day and the shop keeper had 3 baskets full of luscious mangoes as the piece de resistance of his shop.

Many wayfarers and buyers were enchanted by the vibrant colour and freshness of those tropical fruit. They would stop at the shop for a while to pick some luscious mangoes. Among the many buyers, there stood a poor woman with her three children. In her right hand she had a crumpled 10 rupee note. When the other buyers left the shop, she asked the shop keeper in a low voice to give her a mango. And her 3 children were greedily looking at those shinning fruit.

The shop keeper did not give her a mango but told the woman that a single mango would cost her 25 rupees. She now got convinced that the mango was beyond her reach. She left the shop silently and sorrowfully but the young one among her children gave a cry pointing at the fruit.

The poor child cried because he did not know that India was the largest producer of mangoes in the world but INFLATION and FOREIGN EXPORT had made the fruit only for the rich.

N.B. The Photo is downloaded from the blog   Lefts and Rights of  Suzhou