Most times, orphaned and destitute children are found sleeping without a roof or begging for a single time’s meal without getting the exposure to education ever. Last year in January, a man strangled his wife to death in a locality of Vadodara over a bitter dispute about the husband selling off the couple’s house allotted under government’s low-cost housing scheme. The murderous husband slept in the same room as the corpse of his dead wife for an entire night before reporting to the police that his wife had died. In this entire incident, a young boy lost his mother without knowing that his father, the sole support system, had strangulated her. Almost 18 months later, a devastating knock on the door by the Vadodara Police, changed the young boy’s life forever. The police had come to arrest the father of the boy, for the 18-month old murder of his own wife. However, the grief-stricken young boy was left guardian-less as his only support system was being put behind bars for a grievous

Author-Nikisha Adhari