"Not all of us must wait in line to have our dying relatives admitted to hospital or wait indefinitely to get a government-issued card that gives access to subsidised grains...But some of us do.
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"Not all of us must wait in line to have our dying relatives admitted to hospital or wait indefinitely to get a government-issued card that gives access to subsidised grains...But some of us do. And that difference, between those who wait and those who do not, is not merely a difference of luck or of temperament or even of effort. It is a difference written into the architecture of Indian cities. It is, if we are prepared to call it what it is... structural violence"
How India’s Poor Lose Years Waiting in Queues (2026)
Queues at hospitals, ration shops, and offices reveal a hidden inequality: India’s poor lose time as a form of structural violence.
Frontline (frontline.thehindu.com)
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"Not all of us must wait in line to have our dying relatives admitted to hospital or wait indefinitely to get a government-issued card that gives access to subsidised grains...But some of us do. And that difference, between those who wait and those who do not, is not merely a difference of luck or of temperament or even of effort. It is a difference written into the architecture of Indian cities. It is, if we are prepared to call it what it is... structural violence"
How India’s Poor Lose Years Waiting in Queues (2026)
Queues at hospitals, ration shops, and offices reveal a hidden inequality: India’s poor lose time as a form of structural violence.
Frontline (frontline.thehindu.com)
"the quieter violence of the clock. It is the violence of the hour stolen in a queue, the afternoon lost in a government corridor, the morning surrendered to a water tanker that may or may not arrive. It accumulates invisibly, this violence, and it leaves no bruise that the courts can take note of as evidence."
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"the quieter violence of the clock. It is the violence of the hour stolen in a queue, the afternoon lost in a government corridor, the morning surrendered to a water tanker that may or may not arrive. It accumulates invisibly, this violence, and it leaves no bruise that the courts can take note of as evidence."
so true
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