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Orphans in India

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  I hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy with their families. But something often disturbs me with a random thought of children without families or someone to really take care of them. There’s a child, born to parents who have been poor for generations, not allowed to educate themselves or their children, ostracised from main society for centuries. There’s another child, born to some parents, but left with none, thrown in a dumpster, or left in a park, to die or to survive on its own, no idea where to get food from, or even how to get food, nowhere to go, and no one to love him/her. It would be natural to think that both these children deserve sympathy and affirmative action in some form, if only from the voice of conscience that resides deep within us. That conscience speaks to the Government to take care of the destinies of these siblings in distress. As a result, in the above example, the first child gets benefitted under government schemes to go to school and college...