My little one is forever full of
questions! Maybe all children are like that. I was cooking dinner, when he strode
up to me, his toy zebra in one hand, and tugging my dress with the other.
“Mamma”
“Hmmm…?”
“Why do animals live in the jungle? Why
can’t they live in apartments like us?”
I will save our conversation for some
other day, but I remembered his question in context to a news that I saw on TV
a couple of days ago. A live-in maid inPune, who took care of a couple’s 11 month old baby girl while the parents
worked in night shifts, was tossing the baby in air, kicking it with her feet
and terrorising it in every possible way! How on earth can anyone be so
heartless, was beyond my comprehension. To say I was shocked, would be an
understatement. I felt repulsed just watching it. The contents of my tummy did
a flip, every time she threw the child in air and played with like it were a
toy! Luckily for the child, there was CCTV installed in the house, and alerted
by the little ones reluctance to be alone with the maid, the parents decided to
check the CCTV footage. And this is what they found out! Was the woman mentally
sick to have been so ruthless with a toddler?
