Amazing Pics

One Savitha, a caretaker at a local school,

whose husband had left her;

she stayed in a tiny house with her three children,

ages four, three and 18 months.

after she'd left,

the kids seem to have lit a lamp

By the time neighbours sensed

something wrong and the door was broken open,

one charred and

the other two of smoke asphyxiation.

the state of the mother

and try to guess

in their last moments of consciousness.

any satisfactory way of deciding

Is it a commendable state of affairs

when a lone mother has no option

to lock three infants at home

Indefinitely, no doubt.

you just have to walk down the road,

wherever you are reading this,

and you will come across one or several

more like her before you have crossed 100 metres.

you'll find as many men with equally hard stories

The man who's put his life's savings

into feeding destitute street kids in AP;

we have several scores.

at having an

the mature ones

with some vision will aim at both,

for the two ideally go hand in hand.

unfortunately,

has a long way to go on both

and

you do not have to be one of the tens of millions of

our own middle-class experiences will do.

it would be a pity if a story like Savitha's serves

no more purpose than the filling of three inches

of white space on a newspapers.

for the government

or

Or