Indian granny thrown on garbage dump

[DS1]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian couple found an unwell 75-year-old woman lying on a garbage dump, apparently thrown out of her home by her daughter and grandsons who did not want to take care of her, the Hindustan Times reported.

"She never complained about her family's behaviour, only rued the fact that she couldn't move without help," Mohanasundari, one of the rescuers, said.

The "semi-paralysed" Palaniappan told her rescuers her youngest daughter had quarrelled with other family members over who should take care of her. The daughter then got her sons to take their grandmother to the dump in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070719/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_india_granny

[matcom]

1. you know, this is why i'm pro choice

:hide:

[underpants]

2. We need more love in this world

"I love Mrs.Matcom and she loves me back"

[MissMillie]

3. "Bring out your dead!" "I'm not dead yet!"

:shrug:

[DS1]

4. I think I'll go for a walk

:toast:

[LostinVA]

5. Hmm -- that'd be one way to keep Haruka's granny away from the shower

[DS1]

6. please, go on

:)

[Blue Diadem]

7. That happens to many widows in India..not the garbage dump but

being forced into homelessness and left to fend for themselves. I posted an article about it several weeks ago in GD. There are people now providing shelters for these women so they're not forced to live on the streets with nothing to eat.

I do hope their legal system goes through with the charges against her family.

[Crazy Dave]

8. Maybe if they ever have the Olympics there

I noticed the Chinese government has been recently trying to spiff up their human and civil rights now that the whole world will be watching them.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. its a poverty issue.

[Crazy Dave]

10. Same in China but with both countries having such high growth...

...right now China is diverting some of the extra revenues into social and educational programs and hopefully the same will happen in India soon too as the two nations compete against one another in exports and having very highly educated individuals. I once saw an Indian classroom, outdoors at that where seven and eight year olds were already reading and writing in both Hindi and English.