LIFE AS IT GOES How does this man on the street come to terms with life in our country is my basic doubt? The fortunate ones and the reserved ones may have access to a few things which government doles out as schemes. There may be some with some source of income. Some may have a job. Not everyone is so privileged. How do we understand the underprivileged is the question? How it all starts and what happens is what I am going to conjecture? My perception may be grossly wrong though. A typical ministry functions on a fixed format. Neta (representative of janta) feel the need not the other way around. He gets it approved & gets budget allocated. He already has planned how to spend it. He has his bureaucrats to monitor it. The tendering process is initiated. Now it is the look out of that contractor with the lowest bid to get things moving. Contractor hires labour to do the job. It is the labourer on the ground that is making India. It is this man with a tool, with sw...