What the??? What is going on in India?

Not that atypical things don't happen elsewhere (coughMy House coughcough), but I ran across these two stories in the last 12 hours-- both about two kids in India-- and I felt compelled to share.

First off, old news arrived in my inbox from a friend. She introduced me to 15 year-old Jyoti Amge, who is the World's Smallest Girl. She's 11 inches tall. Worst quote ever comes unintentionally from mom: "Jyoti is small, yet cute, and we love her very much." Subtext: "Thank GAWD she wasn't hit by the ugly stick, because otherwise she's be on the first train outta town."

Second, this baby is a two-face. Literally. The baby has two faces. And while my first concern was that the child might suffer at the hands of the unkind, it appears she will have a whole different set of pressures to live up to. "Rural India is deeply superstitious and the little girl is being hailed as a return of the Hindu goddess of valor, Durga, a fiery deity traditionally depicted with three eyes and many arms."

Go read.

cross-posted to centralvalleymoms.com