“My heart broke. This is what we had been trying to prevent:”Why a 5-year old child was not allowed to sit on a swing in a famous park |
When five-year-old Inika Sharma visited Sunder Nursery this weekend, she had no idea that a simple outing would turn into an experience her parents had spent years trying to shield her from.All Inika wanted to do was sit on a swing. She was refused. When her parents asked why, the security guard allegedly said, โBachche ka dimaag sahi nahi haiโ (the child is not mentally sound).What followed was a painful confrontation. Inikaโs mother, Mona Mishra, visibly shaken and deeply upset, questioned why her child could not be allowed on a swing when she was accompanied by her parents and under…