Mumbai in Peace

There was a time when the people in Mumbai so called ‘Bombay’ (before 1996) stayed in peace. This photo was taken on 1894 at VT. The peaceful days prevailed in the city at the time when this picture was taken. At 1890's Mumbai was known for the largest seaports on the Arabian Sea due to the opening of Suez Canal in 1869. Over the next thirty years from 1869, the city grew into a major urban centre, spurred by an improvement in infrastructure and the construction of many of the city's institutions. However, now the city is struggling with terrorist attacks. Recently, the attacks, carried out by terrorists in ten places using automatic weapons and grenades, began on 26 November 2008 and ended on 29 November 2008. One seventy-nine innocent people were killed in this attack. Terrorists plan had started from VT station (Railway Station shown in the picture) in Mumbai by firing the people rapidly whom they saw in the station. That is the day when peaceful place turned into a graveyard for the sinless people.

Peak Of Racial Discrimination

Emmett Louis Till and his mom Mamie Till Bradley

There was a day in the history America, when the peak of racial discrimination took place. That was the period, when African Americans were under attack, that no African-American male in the South was safe. A fourteen year old boy Emmett Louis Till lived in Chicago with his mother Mamie Till Bradley, a teacher. Emmett and his cousin planned a trip to Mississippi to visit their relatives. Before leaving Chicago, his mother clearly advised him about how to interact with white people. Till's mother understood that race relations in Mississippi were very different from those in Chicago. Emmett arrived in Mississippi on Sunday, August 21st.

Roy Bryant (left), with wife Carolyn and J.W. Milam (right) light up cigars after being acquitted of murder

On Wednesday, Emmett and his five cousins went into town, Money, Mississippi, for picking cotton for his uncle. They visited Bryant’s Grocery store to buy some candy. The store was owned by a white husband and wife, Roy Bryant and Carolyn Bryant. Emmett friends challenged to flirt with Carolyn. It seems Emmett says “Bye baby” to Carolyn when he left the store. This news spread quickly around the store. Roy heard this story when he returned from work. He was very angry with Emmett.

Brutally killed Emmett

On August 28, Roy Bryant and his half brother, J.W. Milam, began looking for Emmett Till. They found him at his uncle's cabin. Entering the cabin with flashlights and Colt 45 pistols, they kidnapped Emmett. To teach him lesson, they drove him to a weathered shed on a plantation in neighboring Sunflower County, where they beat and then shot him. Three days later, Emmett’s corpse was pulled from the depths of the Tallahatchie River. It was weighted down by a seventy-five pound cotton gin fan, which was tied around Till’s neck with barbed wire, his right eye hanging midway to his cheek, his nose flattened, and a bullet hole through his head.

Mamie after seeing the body of Emmett's

How a mother would feel the pain of her son’s death. It’s unexplainable pain. She made the decision to have an open casket funeral. She wanted the world to know what had happened to her son. Fifty-thousand people attended the funeral of Emmett Till. Milam and Bryant were never charged for Emmett’s death.

Lina Medina - A Child gave birth to a Child

‘The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new’ - Rajneesh Simil.


As per the quote when mother yields a child she is also born. But in the case of Lina Medina (born September 27, 1933), a child yields a child. Lina Medina a Peruvian girl from Andean village gave birth to a boy which happened when she was five years, seven months and 21 days old.



In 1939, her father carried Lina into a hospital in the town of Pisco, Peru. He specified to the doctors large tumor that was developing in her abdomen cannot be cured by the doctors in his village. After testing doctors found that the swelling was not due to tumor. Dr. Gerardo Lozada treated Lina. He heard a tiny second heartbeat when he placed his stethoscope on her abdomen. Doctors conformed that Lina was about seven months pregnant. She was immediately transferred to a city hospital in Lima. Lina's father was arrested on suspicion of rape and incest, but was later released due to be short of evidence. On Mother's Day in 1939, when Lina was just under 5 years and 8 months old, her baby was delivered by cesarean section. The boy weighed 2,700 grams or 5.92 pounds, was well formed and was named Gerardo after the doctor who originally diagnosed Lina's pregnancy. The fact is Lina Medina never revealed the father of the child.