Very disturbing !

This may be very disturbing to read ....... NDTV in its headline news at 8 pm on 10th of April carried a very disturbing story about how a 1.5 year old was not able to get a decent burial. My eyes were moist as I heard the boy's uncle narrate their trauma and ordeal . NDTV on its displayed a lot of a maturity and the punchline of how they will ensure that there is a solution was very heartening. Even cant imagine what the parents must have been going through - the pain and trauma for losing your kind was not enough the pain of going around the city with the body to give it a decent burial and the place was filthy with scavengers and rabid dogs on the loose. My heart goes out !

Probably this the first time the dogmas of the religion has struck me so hard. It is very easy to be tolerant and assume that not to take stand till it affects oneself. The tragedy and grief is un-imaginable. Which brings me to the eternal question can God be detached from religion.

Birth, Marriage and Death are probably the three most important events and given due importance in any religion/community . Death not being a cause for celebration as compared to the other two calls for that much more sensitivity.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070008282

Eventually even CNN-IBN has also taken up this cause. At one level its a good thing that we have some independence of media .... some one or the other will take up such instances and probably bring about the much needed change in the different facets of our social consciousness where we the society works for the collective will for the people.