IS IT NOT INSPIRING ?

Our country has numerous evils. Many countries have. Ours is considered a bit different at least in a special & particular context. People of rest of the world had been holding this as a country of snakes and black magic. Many of them have started changing their outlook. Retaining, therefore, a mixture of opinion is not unfair in the present context.

Perkee Devi may be a name chosen out of numerous ones which is able to bring the truth - this country has not yet become so civilised that the older belief could be completely ignored of. It was Perkee Devi of Kherabera village under Hariharpur police station near Gomo, Dhanbad ( Jharkhand ) who was forcibly fed human faeces ( stool ) after having been declared a DAAYAN ( a lady magician who is believed to kill people using black magic - say, a kind of witch ) first. Her husband had died sometimes ago &, afterwards, her close relatives had been causing every possible harm to her in order to kick her out from her share of property.

And, what did Perkee Devi prefer to do ? She would not accept defeat. She, at that age of 45, started taking education. Some helping hands came forward to provide assistance in her way of struggle. She went on fighting her case bravely against her enemies to protect her rights. Ultimately she got justice.

Her story, that is not much old, has been given place on the pages of text-books published by one of the most honourable publishers of India, N.C.E.R.T.

Intake of faeces was compelled to Perkee Devi on 22nd April 1999. She was 45 years old that time, a mother of four children.

Is our country merely of snakes & black magic ?

------- Savitree 21 Dec' 07