Hear n’ There

I had made it a point to not post forwards of any kind on my blog, at the time of its not-so-distant inception. But this is one which does deserve attention.My apologies if you have already received a similar forward in your inbox.

I had received this photo with a description, which I later checked on the internet and found out to be true. The following photo was taken by Kevin Carter, a South African photo-journalist who won the ‘Pulitzer prize for Feature Photography’, for this photograph in 1994. The Photo was taken in Sudan when it was facing a rebel-movement and a famine.

The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to a young emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while struggling to a United-Nations feeding center, wherein a seemingly well-fed vulture had landed nearby. He said that he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn’t. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away.The photo was published in The New York Times, and a lot of interest was generated. The fate of the girl was unknown.

……and I sit in an air-conditoned room, cribbing relentlessly that I want another iPod after I broke the first one……

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