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The Child Who Does Not Wake

A scene at a Bengaluru signal, the two possibilities behind it, and the question that neither government nor charity can answer on its own.

A woman at a traffic signal, a child in her arms, and the child is asleep at eleven in the morning. Not asleep — sedated. There are only two possibilities behind that scene, and both of them end at a mother who has done what no mother would ever do.

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