We now know that poor people experience cognitive exhaustion, because they are constantly preoccupied by money, food, housing, and other basics of survival; meanwhile, the well-off distract themselves with smartphones.
It hits home when you come across someone weeping over a body just found, but the rest of the time it's all about the basics of survival, of understanding what's going on, of getting some water to drink, to comprehend what one is seeing because so much of it is in an altered state, surreal, a waking horror.
Working for the International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD), an NGO that aims to improve people's mobility and their access to basic services, we had the idea to use the latest technology to bring to life the plight of these people who lack the very basics of survival.
The following are suggestions from experts, like the American Red Cross and Ready New York, part of the New York City Office of Emergency Management: Put together a disaster supply kit, which should include the basics of survival: a three-day supply of water, food, medications, sanitation items, tools, clothing, bedding, emergency car kit, first-aid kit and important family documents.
It hits home when you come across someone weeping over a body just found, but the rest of the time it's all about the basics of survival, of understanding what's going on, of getting some water to drink, to comprehend what one is seeing — because so much of it is in an altered state, surreal, a waking horror.
Mr Naidu, say his critics, is less interested in such basics of survival than in gimmickry.It is true that a big screen is mounted on Mr Naidu's office wall, to monitor activities at 28 "eSeva" centres in Hyderabad, where citizens can pay utility bills, register births and deaths, and conduct many other dealings with the government.
Learn the basics of winter survival techniques including shelter building, animal hunting and fire building.
All this is threatening our sources of food, water and shelter, the basics of our survival.
They have basic dreams of survival.
The destitute are our own native-born "illegals", facing prohibitions on the most basic activities of survival.
