Babita
Priyanka
Flash news on NDTV Channel: Father wants to sell son to save Babita, his ailing daughter.
Children are so precious. We’d do anything to see a smile on our kids’ faces.
So what can a father do if he cannot afford a life-saving operation for his daughter? And what would the son be feeling about all this? Not exactly the run-of-the-mill job search for sure. Into whose hands would he be sold? Is the hapless father actually selling his son’s life to save his daughter’s? I am not even going into the moral route here. There is no moral highground to take. It is just hard choices.
Yet another daughter, Congress Party member Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, met Nalini. Nalini serves a life sentence in prison for being an accomplice in the assassination of the then Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi (Priyanka’s father). Priyanka desparately seeks closure for her father’s untimely death which happened seventeen years ago. Some call this party politics. I prefer to call it coming to terms with a larger-than-life loss. Or loss of a dear life.
At times, life seems totally connected. It’s almost like joining the dots- like adjusting the mind-lens a bit. Blow off the dust. And what do you see?
You see that the world moves through love. Love for a father, love for a daughter. Love for a victim, for the accused. Love for the body, for the soul.
Love for life. For death…
