Our so called rituals and religious practices certainly seem to be getting more barbaric; medieval; primeval and hedonistic with every passing minute........
A six year old boy sustained more than thirty percent burns and had to be admitted to a Jalandhar based super speciality hospital as a result of his father's clumsiness and ham handedness.......
According to the boy's maternal uncle; the critically injured boy suffered these grievous and life threatening burn injuries when his father was carrying him on his back while cavorting on a bed of hot coals in an almost exact reprisal of a similar grotesque ritual that is sickeningly repeated in Tamil Nadu year after year.......
This horrendous and utterly avoidable incident occurred at around 8 pm or so on a fateful Sunday (June 12; 2016) late evning when the father and son duo were performing this so called "divinely ordained ritual and literally ended up on their backsides on the bed of smoulderingly hot coals when the father stumbled and fell on the same and his son suffered the same fate as a result.......
Bystanders and other fellow participants lifted them to relatively safer and saner climes; but superstition and religious obscurantism prevailed over sanity and sound reasoning once again when the boy's (victims) parents preferred to take him back to their humble dwelling rather than a hospital and all this while spouting seemingly senseless and maddening lines about the deity miraculously curing her ardent devotees of all their afflictions; sufferings and grievous injuries.........
A press photographer from a local Punjabi daily who was utterly dismayed and consternated by the attitude and highly deplorable behaviour of the victim's parents followed them to their shanty on his motorcycle and forcibly carted away the piteously moaning six year old to one of the city's private hospitals where the doctors dressed his wounds to the best of their ability but preferred to shift him to the government run Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) as the same was equipped with a state of the art burns unit where the victim could be treated expeditiously.........
More than aware of the woeful fact that the grievously injured child's parents were humble and ubiquitous rag pickers who could not afford such specialised and expensive medical care the good samaritan (Deepak Kumar) rushed towards the residence of the Jalandhar Central MLA Manoranjan Kalia who immediately parted with a sum of Rs. 10,000/- on being informed about the child's heart rending plight........
Mr. Kalia however did not stop at this and immediately proceeded to ring up the state's chief minister and apprised him about the developments in this case and the chief minister (Parkash Singh Badal) who was unduly perturbed about the boys condition immediately spoke to the concerned hospital's medical superintendent and beseeched him to provide the distressed boy with ht best possible medical care and attention while apprising him of the fact that the state government would fit the entire cost of the treatment and medicines provided to him........
Thanks to the heroic and gallant efforts of Mr. Deepak Kumar both the father (32 year old Raja) and six year old Kartik are making a speedy and complete recovery from their self inflicted burn injuries sustained due to an obsolete; puritan and horrifying belief that should have been uprooted or then eradicated from our midst on August 15; 1947 if not much earlier........
One only hopes and prays that the rather sorry plight of the father and son duo will serve as an eye opener and thereby put an immediate end to such satanic rituals that can only end up causing untold misery and agony to all their "mindless and headless" practitioners.........
A six year old boy sustained more than thirty percent burns and had to be admitted to a Jalandhar based super speciality hospital as a result of his father's clumsiness and ham handedness.......
According to the boy's maternal uncle; the critically injured boy suffered these grievous and life threatening burn injuries when his father was carrying him on his back while cavorting on a bed of hot coals in an almost exact reprisal of a similar grotesque ritual that is sickeningly repeated in Tamil Nadu year after year.......
This horrendous and utterly avoidable incident occurred at around 8 pm or so on a fateful Sunday (June 12; 2016) late evning when the father and son duo were performing this so called "divinely ordained ritual and literally ended up on their backsides on the bed of smoulderingly hot coals when the father stumbled and fell on the same and his son suffered the same fate as a result.......
Bystanders and other fellow participants lifted them to relatively safer and saner climes; but superstition and religious obscurantism prevailed over sanity and sound reasoning once again when the boy's (victims) parents preferred to take him back to their humble dwelling rather than a hospital and all this while spouting seemingly senseless and maddening lines about the deity miraculously curing her ardent devotees of all their afflictions; sufferings and grievous injuries.........
A press photographer from a local Punjabi daily who was utterly dismayed and consternated by the attitude and highly deplorable behaviour of the victim's parents followed them to their shanty on his motorcycle and forcibly carted away the piteously moaning six year old to one of the city's private hospitals where the doctors dressed his wounds to the best of their ability but preferred to shift him to the government run Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) as the same was equipped with a state of the art burns unit where the victim could be treated expeditiously.........
More than aware of the woeful fact that the grievously injured child's parents were humble and ubiquitous rag pickers who could not afford such specialised and expensive medical care the good samaritan (Deepak Kumar) rushed towards the residence of the Jalandhar Central MLA Manoranjan Kalia who immediately parted with a sum of Rs. 10,000/- on being informed about the child's heart rending plight........
Mr. Kalia however did not stop at this and immediately proceeded to ring up the state's chief minister and apprised him about the developments in this case and the chief minister (Parkash Singh Badal) who was unduly perturbed about the boys condition immediately spoke to the concerned hospital's medical superintendent and beseeched him to provide the distressed boy with ht best possible medical care and attention while apprising him of the fact that the state government would fit the entire cost of the treatment and medicines provided to him........
Thanks to the heroic and gallant efforts of Mr. Deepak Kumar both the father (32 year old Raja) and six year old Kartik are making a speedy and complete recovery from their self inflicted burn injuries sustained due to an obsolete; puritan and horrifying belief that should have been uprooted or then eradicated from our midst on August 15; 1947 if not much earlier........
One only hopes and prays that the rather sorry plight of the father and son duo will serve as an eye opener and thereby put an immediate end to such satanic rituals that can only end up causing untold misery and agony to all their "mindless and headless" practitioners.........
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