Dear Afreen,
I don’t know who you were until 5 days ago when you appeared in the papers. You were admitted in the hospital with cigarette burns and torture wounds fighting for your life. Being only 3 months old, I don’t even know how you could take all that and still be alive ‘fighting for your life’. I can’t imagine the pain you would’ve gone through these 90 days of your life. The last 5 days I prayed, hoped and waited for you to somehow get better and go back home with your mother. But yesterday morning, finally, you gave up. May be you couldn’t fight anymore, may be you had no more strength left in your 3 month old tender body – cardiac arrest due to multiple convulsions, the doctors said
You got a death sentence. Your crime: being born a girl!
Your father wanted a boy baby. And when you came to this world, he didn’t like you and he tortured you. Probably he didn’t realize that it was his ‘X’ chromosome too that made you a girl and he held your mother alone responsible for it. He even demanded one lakh rupees from your mother just because she gave birth to you
Your mother Reshma doesn’t want to forgive your father who’s in prison now. She wants a slow death for him. What I want is to kill him myself. Looks like his co-prisoners almost did it yesterday when the news of your demise broke out before the cops rescued him
I’m sure there are several more babies like you being tortured and dying everyday by the ‘Umar Farooq’s of India for being born a girl whose stories didn’t make it to the papers
We’re sorry we couldn’t save you Afreen. We’re sorry that this world couldn’t give you any sort of good memories to take back in your 3 month stint. May be it’s for the good, may be this country doesn’t deserve a precious girl child like you
Again, we’re sorry!
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