What a beautiful face that was I saw as I stood at the bus stop waiting for my bus. She stood a few metres away from me and was talking all the while into her tiny phone she held into her tiny palm.
But one thing disturbed me, she was weeping bitterly and silently maybe the person on the other side would never know, lest her voice gave her away.
The tears stained her pink cheeks and she was oblivious to the people around her who cared to look at her.
Maybe she was hurt, maybe she was a sensitive girl, I will never know.
I too have been in similar situations where even a tiny harsh word could throw me off for a few minutes, a few tears and a bout of sulking and there I was myself.
I too have cried in the privacy of my home a fight with loved ones, harsh colleagues, uncaring people.
This pretty girl, was conveying soft words to the person... my mind went off to various things that could have happened
 I too have silently cried behind my sunglasses, bright sunshine hot tears,
Gushing rains down my umbrella, hot tears rolling down my cheeks, its is a feeling one cannot control.
Helpless, standing there saw her walk into the bus, still stuck on her phone, all I could say was"God Bless you child, "
I will never know WHY ?

As the year closed on us yesterday, within minutes the year 2012, went off in smoke, What a welcome 2013 was given, With our heads bowed the people gathered prayed for peace, good leadership and wisdom to prevail, particularly the youth who are our future citizens, and in a way become the ones to take the country forward.

Deeply bent in prayer my heart and my whole being was with the girls parents(The delhi horrendous rape victim now known as victim X) only my physical being was at prayer.

My heart went out to her parents who I can relate to as I am also a mother of a teenager, and everytime she steps out"Take care " "Watch your step" 

Can one human do this to another ? actually speaking were they humans ?

What went wrong with their parenting? surely there must have been and thats for sure there will always be little signs along the way that snowballed into such a massive, horrendous surreal ..am at a loss for words.

We as parents tend to ignore little signals that we have to correct ... Maybe we have to learn from the mistakes of these demons and most importantly equip our own sons and daughters that it is time to take signs and stand up for truth, may anger a few, maybe you will stand up alone, BUT, nothing should change your attitude to speaking up.

With a prayer on my lips as We welcomed 2013, we also prayed for a better India and a better tomorrow for each and everyone of us...