What horrible, inhumane environments we have created and called them work environments. I was waiting to meet someone at an office recently and the receptionist asked me to wait while she got me the person and as she turned she fell flat on her face. There was a room full of atleast seven people sitting on their desks and not one of them got up to help her up or offer a kind word. They all just asked indifferently if she was alright and went about their business. She seemed floored by the incident and managed to get up in her atleast 4.5 inches pencil heel and rushed to the ladies room. She had returned by the time I came out of my meeting and her eyes were puffy from crying. I felt so sorry for her but sorrier for all those people working there as this would be their fate as well if they were to fall....
Naseem, is a six year old girl. When I met her she was sitting on the charpoi with her mother and constantly clapping but without any mirth. Her hair was cut almost to her scalp. I was told that she was a miracle child, she had been suffering from severe acute malnutrition and her family and relatives had almost given up hope that she would survive but she had proven all stats wrong and was sitting right in front of us. Physically, she was on the mend but her mental growth had been irreversibly stunted. She did not respond to any movement, any gesture or sound, her mind was somewhere else... A little boy, hardly seven, sitting on the curbside on an otherwise busy junction but at 0100AM he seemed so out of place on that dark, deserted road. As we stopped at the traffic signal, on the road perpendicular to where he was sitting, my attention was drawn to his posture. His slumped back was towards me and as I watched, two cars stopped on the lanes furthest from him. He made an ...
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