Nanhe has a smile to die for... and yet does he have a reason to smile, one wonders...
The youngest of five children, he was not even given a name, simple called nanhe..the tiny one. Nanhe has multiple disabilities. When he landed on planet why he could barely hold his head. The innumerable scars on his head were sufficient proof of the number of falls that child had suffered. Incontinent because of impaired kidneys, Nanhe was also often the butt of ridicule and repugnance.
Nanhe came to project why a few months back and has become an important part of our special section. As he is carried out of Sitaram's blue vehicle, we are treated to his special smile, a moment we look forward to every morning. Nanhe participates in all activities and is even starting to take a few halting steps in spite of his deformed feet. And yet his pain is far from over as he has been diagnored with kidney and bladder stones and needs emergency surgery next week to clear a blockage that is causing him severe pain.
Nanhe has an infective joie de vivre, but as I watch him every morning I wonder what this child's tomorrows are going to be.. and I feel totally helpless.. we will deal with one problem but another will appear and even if we heal the body, what hapens next, Nanhe can never lead a normal life..
Nanhe lost his father and his mother barely manages to feed her family, one in which three children have disabilities. A brave woman indeed but with all odds against her..
These are moments when one cannot call logic to the rescue. Some will say karma, but whose karma, the mother's or the little child's?
And yet everything in little Nanhe's demeanour is impregnated with a desire to live.. so what we can do is make those days as happy as possible ... and maybe, just maybe, nanhe is there to show us that life is worth living... provided you do things right