Wednesday, 13 April 2011
One news story on CNN IBN I saw yesterday evoked both poignant and creepy feelings in me. It was about two sisters, Anuradha and Sonali, in their early forties, who cut off all their contact with the world outside seven months ago and locked themselves in their home in a small colony in Noida. For a few months they ordered for groceries at the grocery shop, but before a month or so that too stopped. The girls never came out of their home and ultimately yesterday police had to intervene. The condition of the elder sister Anuradha was severely bad. She had virtually turned into a skeleton with a thin layer of skin on her bones. As she had lapsed into coma, she had to be carried out in the stretcher. Sonali, younger sister, could barely walk her way to the vehicle. She was starved and dehydrated and had turned into a zombie. She was wearing pull-overs even in this hot summer. When asked why, she said she lost track of time. Summer or winter doesn’t make much difference to her or her sister. Entire house reeked with foul smell just as the two sisters and their clothes did. The visuals of this story were shocking and disturbing to the eyes and mind as well. According to the news in the morning today Anuradha died.
What made these two well-educated sisters, daughters of a colonel, take such a drastic step in their life? Neighbours said the death of their father in 1992 came as a mental shock to them (Mother had died much before that) and after a property disputes their brother left the sisters to fend for themselves. With no one around, these sisters attached their feelings to a dog, which died before seven months after which they locked themselves in the house. What were the neighbours doing when they were dying? Neighbours say they tried their best to contact them, continuously knocked at their door. The sisters answered, but never opened the door. Once police came, but they didn’t open the door. The police told the neighbours not to bother about them (the sisters). If they want to remain so, let them live that way.
Psychiatrists say these sisters were suffering from some mental disorder. (Aren’t we all suffering from one or the other form ofmental disorder? We think a person is suffering from mental disorder when he or she becomes violent ot abusive. We forget that a person may be looking cool and calm and yet be suffering from a mental disorder)Sometimes our physical conditions cause mental disorders and sometimes the conditions in life causes mental disorder in human beings. We normally lose our interest in life in two situations : When are not happy with our physical conditions(Our body pain kills us every moment and doesn’t let us enjoy the life) or when we are not happy with the conditions of life in which we are living and we think that there is no remedy for or escape from it.
The news of these sisters disturbed my mind. In the evening when I accompanied mom to Jwellery market, I was observing people, young and old. I just wanted to see how many of them looked happy and satisfied. And the conclusions of my research was quite positive. There were beautiful wives moving in the market wearing blissful smile accompanied by their healthy-handsome husbands. I again started thinking about the sisters. Their story makes us realise that our existence is not independent. It is linked with the people whom we love. When I was observing the cheerful faces of men and women in the market, I realized that our desires, hopes and the love of the people around us keep us happy and healthy. It makes us take care of our body, it makes look beautiful for them and it makes us take interest in life despite our physical conditions. With every death of our near and dear ones, a part of us dies within us. And we keep dying so many times before we ultimately die.
What made these two well-educated sisters, daughters of a colonel, take such a drastic step in their life? Neighbours said the death of their father in 1992 came as a mental shock to them (Mother had died much before that) and after a property disputes their brother left the sisters to fend for themselves. With no one around, these sisters attached their feelings to a dog, which died before seven months after which they locked themselves in the house. What were the neighbours doing when they were dying? Neighbours say they tried their best to contact them, continuously knocked at their door. The sisters answered, but never opened the door. Once police came, but they didn’t open the door. The police told the neighbours not to bother about them (the sisters). If they want to remain so, let them live that way.
Psychiatrists say these sisters were suffering from some mental disorder. (Aren’t we all suffering from one or the other form ofmental disorder? We think a person is suffering from mental disorder when he or she becomes violent ot abusive. We forget that a person may be looking cool and calm and yet be suffering from a mental disorder)Sometimes our physical conditions cause mental disorders and sometimes the conditions in life causes mental disorder in human beings. We normally lose our interest in life in two situations : When are not happy with our physical conditions(Our body pain kills us every moment and doesn’t let us enjoy the life) or when we are not happy with the conditions of life in which we are living and we think that there is no remedy for or escape from it.
The news of these sisters disturbed my mind. In the evening when I accompanied mom to Jwellery market, I was observing people, young and old. I just wanted to see how many of them looked happy and satisfied. And the conclusions of my research was quite positive. There were beautiful wives moving in the market wearing blissful smile accompanied by their healthy-handsome husbands. I again started thinking about the sisters. Their story makes us realise that our existence is not independent. It is linked with the people whom we love. When I was observing the cheerful faces of men and women in the market, I realized that our desires, hopes and the love of the people around us keep us happy and healthy. It makes us take care of our body, it makes look beautiful for them and it makes us take interest in life despite our physical conditions. With every death of our near and dear ones, a part of us dies within us. And we keep dying so many times before we ultimately die.
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