In our land of renunciation this poverty is made inseparable from religion and it makes the poor feel as though they are the sacred cows dedicated as sacrifices to God. Their suffering seems to be only a process of purification and their penury the result of renunciation. But this religious approach is just a cleaver design to cover up the age-old injustice. Poverty is the result of a social crime and its consequences inflict wounds that fester both in the mind and in the body, threatening the very existence of the society.