Last year Hindustan times gave scholarships to few deserving students of the city schools who excelled in academics and co-curricular activities. One of the recipients of this was none other than Shahrukh Khan's daughter.
What an irony? When this country has millions of children who need all the funding even for basic necessities like food, clothing, etc one of country's leading newspaper chooses to fund the education of the daughter of one of the highest tax payers of the country. This can happen only in India. All the students selected for this scholarship have been selected from the most prestigious schools and not from state run schools and these so-called prestigious schools collect a huge sum of fees and in addition to that, the parents send their children to private tuition which cost more than double the school fees. Why on earth would these children need this scholarship? why not give it to more deserving and economically backward students?
Then came the piece of news that a hospital is turned into a fortress for Aishwarya Rai's delivery, while the same page carried a news of a poor woman delivering in the train . What a contrast! Surely , our media and administration needs to wake up for the needs of the poor and stop idolizing stars .
