It is estimated that hundreds of sewer workers die in India every year with
unions blaming a lack of adequate safety equipment and training.
Shiv Sunny, a reporter at The Hindustan Times, who tweeted the picture on
Monday, told the BBC that he was "shaken" by the sight of the man's
grieving eleven-year-old son.
The boy walked up to his
father's body at a crematorium,
moved the sheet from the face,
held the cheeks with both
hands, just said 'Papa' & began
sobbing.
The man was yet another poor
labourer who died in a Delhi
sewer on Friday.
The family could not even afford
the cremation costs and had to be helped by neighbours.
No stranger to real tragedy, Anil's four-month-old son had died a week
earlier from pneumonia. They did not have the money to buy the medicines
that could have saved him.
Perhaps we/I should redefine the word tragedy and the contexts to which
we/I apply it?
Anon
Harvest Verses
James 5:7 John 12:24
Be patient, then, brothers and sisters,
until the Lord's coming. See how the
farmer waits for the land to yield its
valuable crop, patiently waiting for the
autumn and spring rains. Very truly I tell you, unless a
kernel of wheat falls to the ground
and dies, it remains only a single
seed. But if it dies, it produces
many seeds.
2 Corinthians 9:10 Matthew 9:37
Now he who supplies seed to the
sower and bread for food will also
supply and increase your store of
seed and will enlarge the harvest of
your righteousness. Then he said to his disciples,
"The harvest is plentiful, but the
workers are few."
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