I have seen footage on India TV, where a mother, called Rani, actually sold her one year old daughter, Sahiba. This is not for the first time that I have heard about parents selling their children. But reading and hearing about it and ACTUALLY watching the act is quite different.
Here what I have seen… I don’t know how to call that thing a mother or woman or a human being? I have seen the news in the night and cried till morning, completely IMPOTENT tears were rolling down my cheeks.
Still I don’t know how to write about that barbaric incident. People handle their handkerchiefs more carefully than that inanimate object handling its daughter. It was as if it was discussing the price of today’s vegetables and not of it’s daughter. And all the time, it’s daughter was in it’s lap, with the same easy familiarity and blind trust that a child places in a mother. The daughter’s hand was innocently playing around that object, people keep calling mother. The way the child kept yawning and allowing all her weight to rest on that object’s lap…one has to watch it to experience it. I don’t think I will see anything that ugly in my entire life. And the way that object handed over its daughter to a complete stranger!! The confusion was written all over the child’s face. I don’t know how to forget the expression on child’s face. And later on the child kept crying all night in a Children’s home.
Was that inanimate thing called Rani poor? Read this:
Just see, how animals guard their progenies. Try snatching away a kitten in her mother’s presence. But I don’t know what trick this intelligent nature has played with human beings. The biological and psychological factors are totally disassociated with each other. You can be a parent without feeling anything for the child. I wish, if there is a law where future parents can be interviewed and it should be obligatory to appear in aptitude test, only after clearing all this they will be given a go ahead signal.
“Rani’s house in Rustamganj has a 21″colour TV, a music system and her mother owns a mobile. She could have easily raised a child”
— this convinced me that ‘it’ is a beast in disguise: a subhuman creature. I feel every word you’ve written: how, and why in the first place do they need to give birth to a child if they don’t want it??
heart breaking – ofcourse, beacuse of such mothers, the word mother looses its dignity, but even if we think at the level of humanity, the act was heinous.I just hope we have no more Rani’s.
Shocking to say the least!!
Its sad that such things continue happen and people keep quiet.People need to work with the media in exposing all these things.
Our real heroes should be the people who work and fight for such causes….not the ones we read about and see on TV!
horrible…………………………………………
Can’t imagine the situation. Like you said, most Animals do better. Even our own parents will eat last, and keep even their share sweets for us.
I would say, it was good for the child to have got rid of her! She deserved better!
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what a sad thing…can;t beleive someone can really does this and it’s like child farming, grow them sell them.
“Rani’s house in Rustamganj has a 21″colour TV, a music system and her mother owns a mobile. She could have easily raised a child�
It’s comercialization which says these things are more important than a child.
Unbelievable.
Only a little while ago, I read about how the recent law to ban child labour woud be useless practically until they find the means to rehabilitate millions of children affected by it. It is a great pity that even after 50 years of independence, such things should happen in our country.
very painful.