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There were 29 people poisoned in Layyah, by sweets meant to celebrate the birth of a boy.
The halwai had used milk into which pesticide had fallen.
Well, that means there were no insects in the sweets, fatal as they might be.
And the birth of a male child was not as fortunate as myth says.
Not only were so many close relatives killed, but the Punjab Food Authority had to be called in.
That was perhaps the first time it has operated outside of Lahore, so its Director, the energetic Ayesha Mumtaz, may have found herself a little out of her depth.
It would be one thing to deal with death in Layyah, after dealing with indigestion in Lahore.
Though that should be WASA's purview.
Another place involving male children would be the Kumbh Mela, at which it would top the list of prayers.
This year, though, there was an all-women akhara which staged a protest after it was denied a place to carry out the compulsory dips in Ganges.
This akhara is the only one with only female members, and its demand was in the spirit of the women who won access, from the Supreme Court, to certain mandirs.
And the protest was the burial alive of the head of the akhara.
There have been no burials alive in protest, after the banning of Maalik.
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