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07-20-2007, 01:20 AM
Before anyone is judgmental about this case, it has become all too
common in our own social setting, for parents and the elderly to be
treated as such - if not physically, then figuratively.
For many amongst our communities, whether "religious" or not, parents are increasingly being discarded and pushed out of lives. Respecting parental wishes and gaining parental consent is now, in many circles, seen as "cultural nuisance".
The fact that the same social degradation that affected Western culture is now doing so with Muslims doesn't seem to cross the minds of many - especially when the pretense of Islamic backing is put forth to do nothing but satisfy their overgrown egos.
Yet another sign of the Day of Judgment approaching quickly...
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India grandmother 'dumped on tip
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6907269.stm
Authorities in India's southern Tamil Nadu state plan legal action
against the relatives of an elderly woman who was found abandoned on
a rubbish tip.
Chinnammal Palaniappan, who is thought to be 75, told locals who
found her she was driven miles from home in a cattle feed cart and
dumped by family members.
She is in the care of local officials while they try to trace her
relatives.
Tamil Nadu state Social Welfare Minister Dr Poongothai told the BBC
she was "horrified" at the news.
"Once we know who the family members are we are going to take legal
action against them," Dr Poongothai told the BBC Tamil service.
She said she believed the woman was partially deaf and had not been
fed properly for three days.
"She is under the custody of the state at the moment, and she is
being looked after. The police are trying to talk to her."
'Moaning'
Locals in Erode district of the state told the AFP news agency of
their horror at finding the ill woman lying amidst rotting garbage.
"We heard some moaning from the dump yard and when we went over we
were shocked to find an old shrivelled woman lying in filth,"
housewife P Mohanasundari said.
She and her husband took the woman home and fed her before alerting
charity workers.
"Chinnammal broke down recalling how her grandsons put her in their
motorcart, which they used for transporting cattle feed, and drove a
long distance before dumping her in garbage," Mohanasundari told AFP.
She said the grandmother had recalled how her daughter told her
grandsons to leave her far away, so she would not be able to find her
way home.
"There was no anger in her, only a flood of sorrow as she begged us
to take her back to her daughter," Mohanasundari said.
'Vulnerable'
Elderly people have traditionally been looked after by their families
in India, although this is starting to change with the pressures of
modern life.
Dr Poongothai conceded that social change was making old people more
vulnerable.
But she said the law was clear and if children did not take
responsibility for looking after their old parents they could be in
breach of the domestic violence act and prosecuted.
common in our own social setting, for parents and the elderly to be
treated as such - if not physically, then figuratively.
For many amongst our communities, whether "religious" or not, parents are increasingly being discarded and pushed out of lives. Respecting parental wishes and gaining parental consent is now, in many circles, seen as "cultural nuisance".
The fact that the same social degradation that affected Western culture is now doing so with Muslims doesn't seem to cross the minds of many - especially when the pretense of Islamic backing is put forth to do nothing but satisfy their overgrown egos.
Yet another sign of the Day of Judgment approaching quickly...
=====
India grandmother 'dumped on tip
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6907269.stm
Authorities in India's southern Tamil Nadu state plan legal action
against the relatives of an elderly woman who was found abandoned on
a rubbish tip.
Chinnammal Palaniappan, who is thought to be 75, told locals who
found her she was driven miles from home in a cattle feed cart and
dumped by family members.
She is in the care of local officials while they try to trace her
relatives.
Tamil Nadu state Social Welfare Minister Dr Poongothai told the BBC
she was "horrified" at the news.
"Once we know who the family members are we are going to take legal
action against them," Dr Poongothai told the BBC Tamil service.
She said she believed the woman was partially deaf and had not been
fed properly for three days.
"She is under the custody of the state at the moment, and she is
being looked after. The police are trying to talk to her."
'Moaning'
Locals in Erode district of the state told the AFP news agency of
their horror at finding the ill woman lying amidst rotting garbage.
"We heard some moaning from the dump yard and when we went over we
were shocked to find an old shrivelled woman lying in filth,"
housewife P Mohanasundari said.
She and her husband took the woman home and fed her before alerting
charity workers.
"Chinnammal broke down recalling how her grandsons put her in their
motorcart, which they used for transporting cattle feed, and drove a
long distance before dumping her in garbage," Mohanasundari told AFP.
She said the grandmother had recalled how her daughter told her
grandsons to leave her far away, so she would not be able to find her
way home.
"There was no anger in her, only a flood of sorrow as she begged us
to take her back to her daughter," Mohanasundari said.
'Vulnerable'
Elderly people have traditionally been looked after by their families
in India, although this is starting to change with the pressures of
modern life.
Dr Poongothai conceded that social change was making old people more
vulnerable.
But she said the law was clear and if children did not take
responsibility for looking after their old parents they could be in
breach of the domestic violence act and prosecuted.