On the Sabarimala path, the six of them were eagerly sharing a green gum in the rain by the roadside in Laha. Two girls under the age of two, a boy and two young women and their mother. The fingers of the boy, who was no more than two years old, were trembling with cold. Thanga and her children Chandramati and Omana of Laha Manjathot Colony went two kilometers away in search of food.
It has been three days since the rice we got a month ago has run out. There is no ration card in one of their three separate houses. There is no indication that rice is available where the card is. That childish face, with fingers wet and trembling in the rain, greedily eating green beans, is being hidden from the conscience of Kerala in the name of his child’s rights; Although he knows that food is his first right.