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Free Electricity Connection Not For All

A long time ago electricity was a rumour in most households. For most kids growing up in the 80s all they wanted was to one day own a house with electricity.

While this would seem a low-level ambition it was a reality which most of us aspired for.

I told this to my kids the other day and they tongue-in-cheek told me such ambitions should be buried deep in the archives of regrettable aspirations. But they don’t know our struggles. Most of their ambitions are pegged around owning Ferraris, beach houses and aircrafts - things which most of us battle-scarred beings know are reserved for fiction and Hollywood.

Editor's Comment
Let's show compassion to baby Asli

Her story is heartbreaking not only because she is fighting for her life at such a tender age, but because her parents have spent months navigating a medical journey filled with uncertainty, delays, and rising fear.What began as something that seemed as simple as jaundice has escalated into a life-threatening condition that now requires an urgent liver transplant.For Asli’s parents, the reality is devastating. They are not asking for luxuries...

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