In this image (inset), a man is carrying his dead wife on his shoulder as though she is a log. Read | Odisha: Denied a mortuary van, man carries wife’s body on shouldersThe man and his daughter had walked about 12 kilometres this way when some journalists spotted him and saw news. India is so advanced today that a man carrying his dead wife on his shoulder down an ultra-marathon route is news. The image is about what poverty does to the poor. But what does poverty do to the middle class observer, to the readers of this newspaper for instance?

Source: Hindustan Times August 28, 2016 14:26 UTC