Hunger

Think and read this when you complain about your food. I was visibly shaken for a while after reading this article. Now I know what famine means in literal sense, now I know how important life is, and now I know why wasting food is a sign of the disease of modern society. Well, barely could I etch my thoughts on it further....Read on...

This image presaged no celebration, a child barely alive, a vulture so eager for carrion. Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize winning photo was taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine. The picture depicts a famine stricken child being stalked by a vulture. The child is crawling towards a United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer who left the scene as soon as the photo was taken. He later confided to friends that he wished he had intervened. Journalists at the time were warned never to touch famine victims for fear of disease. Three months later, and only weeks after being bestowed with the Pulitzer Prize, Kevin Carter committed suicide.