Consider this:

From today's headlines in the Indian media:

One in ten children in Delhi's slums do not live beyond their 10th birthday (ndtv)

'93 blasts sentencing deferred (mid-day)

Tension runs high in Nandigram (TOI)

16 year old cancer patient raped at Tata Memorial (Afternoon D&C)

and yet, our sons-of-the-soil choose to focus on Richard Gere kissing Shilpa Shetty. Don't these people ever go to Work or is burning effigies their sole occupation?