Responsibility

I saw a news in Hindustan Times that in Delhi, a child aged 12 hang himself with the help of the Duppatta of his sister and mother for hanging himself from the fan.

Reason : He wants to gain height but not got significant growth. The child used to see TV and attracted by the advt on Complan. The advt shows that the child taking this drink will grow faster than others. This poor child asked his mother to get the drink from local market and he was taking it daily for the past one month. Regularly every day he used to stand near the wall and mark his height. He also used to tie his hand with duppatta and hand himself from the fan so that he thought he will gain height faster. All these activities were known to the family but the poor mother did not tell and made the kid to understand it can not happen all of sudden in real life. On Friday evening the boy came from school as usual and started measuring his height and after seeing that he did not gain any height, he hanged himself.

A young child lost his life just by his innocent knowledge and his family did not took care and educate him about the false advertisements. Who is responsible for this? The Product manufacturer OR the advertiser OR the family members OR the Technology development that forced the child to take and believe the world he sees is always correct?

We should not take any little chance with young children and should be very careful in all aspect. Most interaction may help in arresting such mis happening.

Vinayaga Chathurthi - 2010

We celebrated Pillaiyar Chathurthi this year Y’day (11^th Sep 2010), Raji started making arrangements for the poojai, We could purchase a clay pillaiyar from market on Friday itself. Even though it was not a big size pillaiyar, its OK to have a clay pillaiyar in Delhi. On Friday evening itself Raji collected some flowers and Leaves from the garden and fruits from market.

There was heavy rain on Saturday morning but self and Sujani went around again in the rain and collected different flowers and remaining leaves.

As “Kudai” was not available in the market, we prepared it in 15 minutes using stick, old CD, Colour Papers. The training I had during my stay in Cuddalore helped and hope Sujani can make such Kudais in the coming years.

We made preparations for poojai so as to start it after Raghu Kalam. All available Pillaiyars in our house were taken and kept near the poojai’s place. Raji started cooking and she was also ready by that time.

We also made “Arugam pul Malai, Erukkam poo malai, Malligai Poo Malai, Panju Vastram etc. and kept ready.

Started poojai by 1115 hours and it was completed by 1215 hours in a fitting manner.

Raji prepared Coconut Kuzhukattai, Ulundhu Kozhukattai, Idli, Sundal, Vadai, Payasam etc.

Function went off well happily with a small itch of Sruthi’s absence.

Everyone is blessed by Lord Vinayaka.