Is Magdalene the child of a lesser God?

Let me confess that I have been jolted into writing this painful blog on Magdalene by a committed social activist’s answer to my query about why his organisation has not protested about her ordeal. He replied, “We can’t speak up for everyone…” What was Magdalene’s crime? All she tried to do was better her life by enrolling in a nursing school in Karachi. She may not have become Florence Nightingale, but she sure had stars in her eyes and the prayers of her poverty stricken family in Punjab. But it was not to be. The petite young woman caught the ...