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This is a click posted on the Project Jugaad Page on FB. Jugaad is the local word that means grassroots innovation to overcome any constraint .

For some reason, the slight of the slim overloaded animal reminded me of the recent quote by Gujarat CM Modi, where he attributed the women's malnutrition in his state to the tendency of the women  to ignore health and  diet for the sake of fashion.





The beauty conscious
dieting mare,
pushed into it,
by a helpless elder,
and then loaded
under the weight
of
inflation,
adulteration,
no access to quality education,
hitherto made available
by family
only to horses.

No roof,
unavailable nutrition,
unaffordable clothes,
undreamable ornaments,
and
tightly reined in
when
wishing to gallop.....

One must be grateful
for good roads
and
rubber wheels,
that make her pulling easier.

She doesn't know
that the roads
were actually made
for white horses,
carrying decorated bipeds
sometimes
selling themsleves
for money.....