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A heart-wrenching scene unfolded at an old-age home in the Bolagarh area of Khordha district on Independence Day, leaving everyone, including officials, in tears. Bolagarh Tehsildar and BDO in-charge, Bijay Kumar Sethi, had visited the shelter to celebrate the occasion with elderly residents.
What he witnessed, however, was not just a celebration but a painful reminder of broken family ties.
As Sethi interacted with the inmates, one after another began narrating their stories - stories of betrayal, neglect, and abandonment at the hands of their own children. Many revealed that although they had families, they were forced into l...