Sita Sahu, a mentally challenged teenager from Rewa, is busy
nowadays helping her mother sell ‘gol gappas’ in their nondescript ghetto
settlement. Well, that is nothing out of the ordinary, considering there are
millions of children in our country faced with a similar bleak fate, and their
state of living narrates the same old story.
What, then, prompted a leading newspaper to carry a front
page article dedicated to delineating her hardships?
Well, she is a precocious talent. Representing India at the
2011 Special Olympics in Athens, she did the nation proud by bagging two bronze
medals- in the 200m and 1600m. She was faced with a deluge of congratulatory
messages and cash prizes. Her life seemed to have taken a turn for the better.
Sadly, the hollow promises are yet to materialize into
something substantial.
