The article at the bottom of the front page of today’s edition of The Hindustan Times was disturbing to say the least. It was about a married couple who unknowingly created incest; they were twins who were separated at birth, adopted by different families, and were kept from knowing their true identity. In the course of time, they met, tragically developed an attraction for each other, and married, only to later discover that fate had played a cruel joke on them.

The article looked at the situation in an emotionless, how-to-prevent-this-from-happening-again light. But a newspaper can’t really afford to have an emotional feel to it. It stressed on the importance of telling their children their true biological identities at some point of time in life. But what I shudder to think of is the emotional trauma they must have gone through upon realizing that the one they fell in love with and married is actually one with whom they’d shared the same womb. Between two of the most sacred human relationships, they had been crushed, emotionally and psychologically. Quite understandably, they had to separate.

I don’t really know what to write. Pray this never happens to anyone else. And may God be with them.