Bright and Dark Sides
Have you heard of Pappan Singh?
He is a mushroom farmer in Delhi’s Tigipur village. When the lockdown started, he did not send away his workers. He provided them food and accommodation.
He spent Rs 68,000 to buy air tickets to Patna for them, and gave each of them an additional Rs 3000. He completed all their medical formalities and drove them to the airport in his own car.
There is still humanity left—at least in some of us. Or, may be, in most of us, and it can be rekindled and fanned into a flame.
Someone else travelling to Bihar was not quite so lucky.
At Muzaffarpur station, a little child was trying to wake up his mother, who seemed to be fast asleep on the railway platform. The truth is: She was dead.
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Fr Joe Mannath SDB
