After a long time I was again on the road..roaming around on the streets searching for stories and taking photographs. On a dingy lane just opposite a mosque in Old Delhi I saw this old woman who was holding the window of a dargah . I slowly went behind her and whispered in her ear " Amma...kya chahiye khuda se?" (mother...what do you want from God?) and she replied "meri jaan...mera laal" (my life...my son). She told she has been coming to this dargah everyday for the past 13 years to pray that her son comes back home. Her son went missing when he was just a 12 year old kid. On an average, over 40,000 children in India are reported missing every year, of which 11,000 remain untraced. Nobody knows where they go. There are thousands of mothers like her waiting for their children to come back home one day. © Danish Siddiqui Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
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