A moonbeam is the streak of light in the darkness,the ray of hope in the period of misfortune....My blog is about my life in the last forty years and the people and events that are my "moonbeans"!!

To start with I was born on August 22nd 1969, with well, "cute baby" looks. It so happened that my'dadi' (paternal grandmother) had passed away a little before that and my father who was very close to her was inconsolable and lost in memories of her. So,for him, I was like the sunshine after the rain...Taking me in his arms, he declared-"This is Mataji-my mother reborn".For a long time,especially the initial three growing up years my parents treated me with a lot of love and reverence.

Isn't that how the birth of the girl child is to be greeted? In fact this is how most Indian Hindu families traditionally honour the girl child by referring to her birth as the advent of a Goddess...a girl child's birth needs to be celebrated not condemned. A change is to be brought in the mindset of people at the individual level--- maybe then we would be able to gradually solve the problem of female foeticide prevalent in India.

My parents' reaction to my birth is the first moonbeam of my life.