Tale of a boy who sees the worst and the best in human being

He survives by sheer luck but not before the step-fatherly brutality has left him maimed. Both of the eight-year-old boy's hands have been severed by a sharp bill-hook from the elbow by none other than his step-father. His offence was to ask for a packet of potato chips from the man who has married the boy's mother after her first marriage broke down. Denied of the treat, the boy just complained what kind of father he was that whenever the little one asked for anything, he refused to part with a penny! Irate, the father took him to a solitary place near a Tajgaon mosque and chopped the right hand from below his elbow. Still the boy did not lose his sense and told the man how he would eat now that he has lost his right hand. Then the brute of a man did the same to the boy's left hand and delivering a few blows on his head left him in a bush thinking that loss of blood will soon cause the boy's death.
However that was not to happen. Passers-by heard him groaning when the boy came to his sense after he had gone blank for quite sometime. The passers-by informed the police of the near dead boy and the police took him to a hospital where doctors attended the severely wounded boy. After treatment the boy recovered enough strength to narrate his tragic story. His mother was contacted and she made it amply clear that her husband was an addict and he was capable of cruelty of the worst kind. She reckons he might have a plan to use the maimed boy for beggary. She also informed that her husband appeared at home briefly before absconding.  
This real life incident can beat any comparable incident often found in fiction. The boy named Shanta was first admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on February 12 this year but then luck smiled on the hapless boy as much as possible in his position. When the incident came to the notice of a member of the staff of the prime minister's office (PMO), she took initiative for better treatment of the boy at the National Institute of Traumatology Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation (NITOR) popularly known as Pangu Haspatal. After a series of surgical operations there, he was returned to his mother at Kuril slum. Later on, the official of the PMO at her own expense rented a modest house at Ibrahimpur, Cantonment for the mother and her son.
If everything goes according to the plan, the amputee boy should now be in a specialised hospital in the United States of America. He was supposed to fly to America on October 28 last for having bionic or prosthetic hands. All expenses included till the boy's return home after the fitting of his hands will come to Tk 2.5 million, according to the woman with a heart of gold. She has got beside her the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association and the Udayan Support Centre to help her in this noble mission. The boy is expected to live a near normal life, thanks to the bionic hands.
This incident has brought the worst and the best in man. One person has chopped the boy's hands off and another has took upon herself the responsibility of giving the boy what was beyond his dream -love, care and the bionic hands for him to survive without being dependent on others. The boy has seen the brutality at its worst and he is supposed to be overwhelmed by the generosity of a woman who is not even remotely related to him. The world is liveable for people like the officer who serves at the PMO. She has distinguished herself for the motherly love and affection. Moved by the plight of the boy who lost his hands for no fault of his own, she has done what can make anyone proud. It appears she did not look for self-aggrandisement. All she did was from a call from within.
She has made it amply clear that the smile on the little one's face is her reward. Let there be more such women and men who will respond to the call of humanity like her. Bangladesh will be a better place for people like her. May God grant her a most active and long life.