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Cracking Relationships: A Mother Dies in an Old-Age Home… and Her Sons Abandon Her



Bhussawal Gupta (70) and his wife Shobha Devi (62), residents of Campierganj in Gorakhpur, had been living in an old-age home for the past one year.
On 20th November, Shobha Devi passed away due to kidney failure.

The sad part is not that she died in an old-age home.
The real tragedy is the cruel behaviour of her own children.

Despite having three sons and three daughters, not one of them took the responsibility of performing their mother’s last rites.
The sons said:
“There is a niece’s wedding… bringing the body home will be inauspicious.”

They even said:
“Keep the body anywhere… we will see later.”

And finally—
the mother’s body was buried near the riverbank,
and even the promise that “after the wedding, we will make an effigy and perform the last rites” turned out to be false.

The wedding is long over…
but Shobha Devi’s last rites have still not been performed.

What has happened to today’s children?

Parents who spend their entire lives raising their children—
caring for them, educating them, fulfilling their dreams…
those very parents face the harshest neglect in their old age.

Old-age homes, once a rare exception…
have now become a normal part of society.

Why such disrespect towards parents?

This is not just one incident.
It is a painful picture of our society’s breaking relationships, changing mindsets, and increasingly self-centred lifestyle.

Does modernity mean distancing ourselves from parents?
Are we losing our sensitivity in the race for comfort and convenience?
Have we really learned that parents no longer deserve time, space, or a place in our hearts?

These news stories are not just reports…
they are a mirror to our society.

Let us think—
If our parents become a “burden” to us,
then what will we become for our own children?

Let’s share a message:

👉 Respecting parents does not make us outdated.
👉 Abandoning them is not “practical”—it is inhumane.
👉 Serving them is not a favour—it is our duty.

If a relationship is made of blood,
its respect must come from the heart…
otherwise, relationships remain only in name.

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