Commando with a Tattoo...

Blog marathon Blog number 11...

Anu’s Chatter....

Today I read an inspirational story of a man who was lost in one of the Mumbai slums in Thane and he went back home after 20 years to his biological mother....at the time he was lost he was around  6...I have just finished reading a real life story of Ganesh Dhangde a Mumbai slum dweller who lived to become a commando in the Mumbai Police...all the years he was lost from his mother( his father a construction worker  had died when he was a child) he was taken care of by kind strangers and Mumbai orphanages gave him the education and courage and brought  the best in him and he became an athlete of the state level to be re-united with his family 20 years hence  because of a tattoo of his mother’s name ---Manda Dhangde ingrained on his left  underarm, a tradition in the most Mahar-ashtrian villages...That made me think a lot about my country's culture guys. It is in fact a tradition to inscribe a tattoo I understand .....with the family name on small children..its awesome I feel ...its like an identity card ..Dear friends there have been instances of children lost and found because of  a birth mark ...so  a tattoo after birth on a babies body is  really a wise tradition....Well three cheers to Mumbai and its awesome spirit!