When a Khurdish Syrian kid's dead body washed ashore on a Turkish beach, When 30 young children died with the lack of Oxygen (denied by govt)cylinders in Uttar Pradesh. When 20 neo-natals died in Attapadi (over a period of two years) due to malnutrition, When 9028 children die because of no vaccination in the last 7 years. A kid came outside my car window with a national flag, the one which resembled wings that came out during our 50th year of Indian independence. I didn’t lower the windshield. She might be 6 years old or maybe seven. If she was in school she would be in second standard singing ‘Mein baadal ban jaaon’ (If i turn into a cloud...)
I don’t see her. She is transparent like the side window glass on my cab. She walked past me and got engulfed in a thicket of smoke from a truck behind. The irony of selling symbols of freedom to people trapped in metal cans with wheel.
When pollution alone kills 1.7 million children all over the world. (in a year )
