WE RESPECT OUR ELDERS. or do we?

I don't know what great Indian culture we love to flaunt. Read with horror in The Hindustan Times on Thursday, how a 75-year-old paralytic lady was thrown -- by her daughter and grandchildren -- into a garbage bin in Tamil Nadu. Follows another story about this guy who left his mother to die in a car in Navi Mumbai.

Are these guys human beings or what? Throwing senior citizens out into the street or into an old-age home, or even tossing them from home to home isn't uncommon; but throwing someone into a garbage bin, for Chrissake? How dehumanising can it get? And do it to a grandmother? The most adorable, cuddlesome and compassionate of all living creatures?