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Born to die

TIME AS defined by Buddhists, is the space between birth and death.

For some, it is long enough to enjoy the material world and some are less fortunate to have a shorter space between their birth and death.

In the case of this infant, it was too short to be counted, for the end came almost instantaneously after birth. The sad demise of this infant is, of course, another run-of-the-mill story. Is taking birth as an offspring of a mother who did not want the baby at all for obvious reasons fault of the child? If it were to be a stillborn baby, the issue would have been different.

The infant met with the gory end in a municipal garbage bin. Passers-by took a look into the bin only to shed a tear or two that rolled down their cheeks so naturally that the humanity in them did not allow them to ignore it, sans any feelings like its mother.

SURPRISE RAIDS by the vigilance wing of the Andhra Pradesh Transco and its publicity in the media had its impact at least in one case in Guntur district. A subscriber to the domestic connection in Yedlapadu village had been enjoying reduced power bills... actually... no power bills.

For the past two years according to a complainant Veeranjaneya from the village he had neither been getting bills nor receipt. The connection in the name of Pasupuleti Hanumantha Rao was functioning this way and the local Transco were doing in the case of many other connections in Yedlapadu in the district, he told the Joint Collector, Janardhana Reddy, on Monday. Veeranjaneya's conscience did not permit him to enjoy the facility this way and the fear of getting caught drove him to tell the officials about the misappropriation. The JC did not lose any time and put people on the job to verify the facts. Sincerity and personal integrity was available in abundance in the rural India and debt-ridden farmers committing suicide was another example. Kudos Veeranjaneya.

By A. Saye Sekhar in Vijayawada and Ramesh Susarla in Guntur

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