May 2026
23/05/2026: Recently while have a dialogue around poverty we were discussing the 2-dimensional nature of measurement and addressing of poverty. This morning’s newspaper story caught my eye as an example of how poverty can be a complex difficult phenomenon to understand in the Indian context. 75-year-old Bhagyalakshmi died on a Wednesday (20th May) and her abandoned body found on Thursday (21st May) as per the newspaper reports this on Saturday (23rd May) morning. A decade and more ago her husband died and she was abandoned None of her 10 children refused to care for herShe…