HAVE YOU SEEN BABY CRYING FOR MILK....?

IT HAS GONE PAST MY EYES FEW YEARS BACK, NOW THOUGHT OF SHARING WITH YOU ALL.

I WAS ON AN OFFICIAL TOUR TO PURULIA BELT. A SMALL VILLAGE WHERE POVERTY WAS THEIR DAILY COMPANION. MOST OF THE MEN,THOUGH WAS FEW LEFT IN THE VILLAGE. REST WAS AT JAIL FOR FALSE CASES THROWN IN THEIR DESTINY BY THE RED GOVERNMENT.

SCOPE OF WORK WAS NIL, SOME USED TO GO OUT IN JUNGLE TO FETCH OUT SOME WOODS AND SELL IT TO OUTSIDERS. AND REST BEGGARY.......

THAT DAY I WAS TO VISIT A SCHOOL WHICH IS JUST IN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE VILLAGE...

A SMALL BABY HARDLY 2 YRS OF AGE CRYING UNDER A HUGE TREE. IT WAS A HOT SUNNY DAY OF JUNE, I STOPPED MY CAR.

I WAS REALLY SHOCKED TO SEE THE SITUATION. A BABY CRYING IN THE MIDST OF HOT SUN BY THE ROAD.....OH! I CAN'T EXPLAIN THE MOMENT.

I SAW SOME VILLAGERS AROUND PASSING BY. STOPPED THEM AND ASKED ABOUT THE PARENTS OF THE BABY, THEY TOLD THE BABY'S FATHER IN JAIL AND MOTHER IS INCAPABLE TO FETCH OUT MILK AND FOODS FOR THE BABY.

IT WAS SHOCKING TO HEAR THAT AND THAT'S WHY SHE HAD LEFT HER BABY BY THE ROADSIDE IF ANY BODY GENEROUSLY TAKES BABY ANY WITH HIM. THEN PERHAPS THE BABY WILL LIVE AND WILL HAVE PROPER FOOD AND CLOTHING.

HOW CAN A MOTHER IGNORES THE CRY OF HER BABY? MAY BE SHE IS SILENT FOR THE BABY'S FUTURE. IF SHE KEEPS THE BABY WITH HER THEN THE BABY WILL DIE WITHOUT FOOD,IF SHE CAN CONTROL THE EMOTIONAL BARRIERS THEN THE BABY MAY BE ALIVE. BUT IN BOTH THE CASES THE MOTHER IS LOOSING THE BABY.

WITHOUT WASTING TIME I TOOK THE BABY, WRAP IN A TOWEL PLACED IN MY CAR'S SEAT. ASKED MY DRIVER TO FETCH THE MOTHER OF THE BABY, AND ASKED ONE OF THE VILLAGER TO BRING SOME MILK.

YOU ALL WILL NOT BELIEVE! THE BABY STOPPED CRYING, I MANAGED HIM IN THE CAR SEAT THEN HIS MOTHER CAME TO ME. WHAT SHE TOLD IS THE ONLY WAY TO FIGHT THE POVERTY OR THEY HAVE TO TAKE UP SUICIDE THE ONLY LEFT OPTION. I GAVE HER THOUSAND RUPEES WHICH WAS AT THAT TIME LEFT WITH ME, AND ASKED NOT TO REPEAT THE SAME INCIDENT AGAIN. AND LEFT THE PLACE.

WHILE COMING BACK I WAS THINKING WHETHER I DID THE RIGHT OR WRONG? MONEY IS NOT THE ONLY THING ONE DAY THIS 1000 RUPEES WILL FINISH AND THEN AGAIN THE BABY WILL CRY IN HUNGER AND AGAIN HIS MOTHER WILL LEFT HIM BY THE ROAD SIDE AND MAY BE THAT TIME NO ONE CAN PASS BY OR A SPEEDY TRUCK MAY RUN OVER THE BABY. THE DEATH! IS THIS WHAT SHE WANTED IN HER SON'S FATE. MAY BE I THOUGHT WRONGLY. I WOULD HAVE BRING BACK THE BABY TO KOLKATA AND PUT HIM UNDER ANY NGO.

VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY. WHAT THE SOCIETY WILL SAY? THESE ARE THE HOT ISSUES DISCUSSED IN THE SOCIETY.

LETS HOPE FOR THE BEST AND WELL BEING FOR THE BABY.