Jabalpur Incident:A Mother Never Loses
The news that was playing on TV shook Iqra to the core. Her eyes were fixed on the screen, but her heart was restless, heavy with fear and sorrow. The report was on a tragic accident at Bargi Dam in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. A group of smiling vacationers had abruptly turned into a massacre and screams. She sat next to h er little son, Shad, the one who is lost in his toys. But Iqra was no longer thinking over in the room--he was wholly concentrated by one heartbreaking circumstance of the news a mother who had her little child firmly in her arms and is fighting to the last breath. The news anchor said that she could have saved herself. But she did not wish to drop her child. Though the cold waves dragged him down, she still held him against her body and before long, the two had vanished into the silence. Iqra started crying and the tears started flowing down her cheeks. So, unconsciously, she drew Shad to her and embraced him. Shad raised his eyes innocently, and said, “Ammi… wha...