When hunger leads to death

It’s an incident which reflects the pathos of surviving in our times. Three sisters, who were apparently well educated and were living in the Kalkaji area of South Delhi, went without food for weeks, since they were facing poverty and unemployment. Finally, one of them succumbed to starvation. This would have been the fate of the other two also, if neighbours, who noticed a foul smell coming from their house, had not notified the police. All of this leads to the question: In a city where people do not have time to interact with their neighbours, what happens to the old and weak who cannot care for themselves and are forced to die a slow death?

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