Passion series 7 - The Joy of Giving

Was crossing the school meant for special kids (we call them, God's own Children), and stopped-by only to see this - a little young lad about 10 years lying in an auto-rickshaw, hands and legs still shivering, jerking and foam from his mouth.

Pinned on the map where the school is located

Yes, it is epileptic fits.

Speechless for a second, and controlling the anxiety, I asked the 4 or 5 men around,

"Can we take him to the hospital?"

He pointed me to the kid's auto driver, who was actually trying to reach his mother on her phone, to know what to do.

I reached up to him and asked,

"Can we take him to the hospital???... ... ... May be she can join us there", worrying about the emergency.

I am unknown, still he said "Yes", and we started to NIMHANS (Government group of hospitals) where the driver knew that the kid was treated. We reached the hospital's emergency ward, and in the next 15 minutes, Akshay's (got to know his name) mother too joined us in the hospital.

Finishing the formalities, a Doctor examined Akshay and was irritated just to know that he was not given medicines for the last 6 months and hence this emergency.

The irate Doctor turned on his mother, and asked furiously "Don't you need your son...? How can you stop the medicines...?"

The embarrassed mother can only weep, and had no answer. Later I understood that it is the COST OF THE MEDICINES that is the reason. She needed 1,100 rupees a month just for medicines.

How can a mother, who is a maid, can afford this? And moreover her husband fled away for reasons...

What else is PITY, if this is not?

Now, what does Gemspiration's 'Passion Series' got to do with this incident?

The Joy of giving - Yes, I had decided that I should buy these medicines for Akshay, a small service that I could (doing this for the past 2 years now).

And every time, I buy and give them the medicines, the heart feels lite, so lite that peace and happiness fills the mind that you are helping, and saving someone.

Rightly said, the JOY OF GIVING can only be felt, cannot be bought.

There are a lot more Akshay's suffering from a lot more problems. Let us try and give what we can.

Let mankind flourish :)

(Pics of Akshay and the School later)

Passion series 6 - retired Indian Army Brave Heart saved 137 Crore property

It could have made headlines if this property of State Bank of Patiala was damaged, like how the only McDonald's in Rohtak was recently burnt during Jat agitations.

But Hawa Singh Yadav, the retired Nayak from Indian Army made a difference. This one man stood brave and fired shots from his double barrel gun to keep the ATM and the bank away from the 500 men mob who were trying to enter the bank.

(
 -- What does this mob has to do with the Bank - while fighting for reservations / rights?
 -- How does 'fighting for rights' relates to destroying properties?
 Does anyone have answers?
Let's continue...
)

Burning tyres, throwing chilli powders hasn't distracted or moved Yadav from standing tall and saving the bank. The drama continued for sometime until the 500 strong men count dropped to 50, but still were determined to mess up.

Yadav is already hurt, and called out for help from Police and relatives. It seems the reply from the police was 'Why risk to save one, putting others in danger?'.

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Do you (reader's) agree to this?
What if the troops of Siachin thought if that endangers them on their way to save the sunken heroes?
)

Finally the tricks of Yadav's cousin saved him from the mob. Read how here.

Whatever said, the saddest of the incident is that, no officials have turned up until now for the help of Yadav. It's more than 2 weeks now (incident happened on 20-Feb) and still he is waiting for the appreciations and help (though, our heart says, he may have not done it for work and not just for appreciations).

Yadav is treated in a hospital in Gurgoan now.

Dear Sir Yadav, Brave heart! Gemspirations respects you Sir.

Image courtesy: u4uvoice.com