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.
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