Worse Than Any Other (EN) A provoking character in a play by George Bernard Shaw said that he hated “poverty and slavery worse than any other crime whatsoever”. It is not necessary to invoke the context to appreciate the view of poverty as a crime. When the West Bengal police, after long years of indifference and a few years of sporadic action, claim that West Bengal has lost 2,500 teenage girls to trafficking in one year, it is both an indictment of their callousness and an exposure of the breadth and depth of poverty in the state.

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