An apt criticism by Sarath "at key junctures I personally feel you dodge the issue a bit to
fall in line with the usual vagueness of solutions offered by mainstream society/media.
In short, the clarity in method is not carried on to its ruthless conclusions."

I fully agree with the above observations. So does that still remain a criticism :)

For any problem to be solved, first it has been understood.
Without understanding the problem, solving it is completely useless.
It won't solve the problem but in turn will create new problems.
That does not mean we stop trying to solve the problems, waiting for the perfect solution.
That means we should be flexible enough to change the solution as understanding grows, the scientific method.
When I look around, I see that this is not happening at all.
So, there is a need to stop and ponder at all the problems.
First question has to be, what are we trying to solve?
Next question is, is this the real problem, or something else?
While trying to understand poverty, I found to my amazement that its not about poverty.
Its about something entirely different.
So if its entirely different, simply, the present solutions will not be effective.

Next, I think there is no universal 100% solution.
Everyone lives differently, thinks differently.
What will work in Western countries won't work in Indian subcontinent.
What will work in Indian subcontinent won't work in African continent.
What will work in African continent won't work in Oriental regions.
Adding further,
What will work in Kashmir, won't work in Bihar.
What will work in Karnataka, won't work in Maharashtra.
So there is a need of finding answers looking at the local scenario.
If I want to solve poverty in Bihar, I would have an entirely different solution than in Orissa.
Problems are the same, solutions are not.
So that pushes me away from general solutions.
I can provide personalized solutions.
I just don't have the general ones, if they exist.

Further, right now I even don't have the solutions.
That does not mean I don't have the potential to solve the problems.
What it means, that I do not have the requisite facts and figures to solve them.
I have a list of probable solutions but these are only paper solutions.
And many times paper solutions don't work.
On paper Grameen bank is a disaster, but its a success.
These problems are not small problems.
They require a lot more devotion than one post, which I do not put.

Lastly, I am just a common person.
I think that there are other people who are more smarter than me.
If not smarter, then in a better position to solve these.
Be it financially or politically.
Maybe its my shortcoming or my irrational belief.
So I am doing what I know for sure I can do.
I can present a different side of the story.
I can analyze things from a different angle.
I know this is only one percent of the work.
But this one percent can set the track for the rest of ninety-nine percent.

I also know this is the first step in my own thinking.
I am still learning, I just hope I never stop learning.