There was a time when the poor of our land were rich. Not in the way that the wealthy are rich, but in a more qualitative way that beggars description. They had the ear of policymakers, the heart and ...

There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed ...

The God-conscious being looks upon all alike, like the wind, which blows equally upon the king and the poor beggar. As the Guru Granth Sahib is considered the Eternal Guru, Sikhs believe it should ...

In other words, the poor were cast as characters in allegories that served the interests of the rich and validated their disproportionate wealth. The seamstress and beggar were types, not people ...