By Sonu Tyagi Founder, Go Spiritual & Approach Entertainment December 27, 2025
Just four days ago, on the night of December 23, 2025, in the Gurusankalp Housing Society of Sector-1, Kalamboli, Navi Mumbai, a 30-year-old woman allegedly ended the life of her six-year-old daughter by strangulation. The child, who had struggled with speech difficulties since early childhood and preferred communicating in Hindi rather than Marathi, became the tragic focal point of her mother’s accumulated frustration and resentment. What was initially reported as a sudden cardiac arrest was later confirmed by post-mortem examination to be death by asphyxiation. During police interrogation, the mother confessed to the act. She had already been undergoing psychiatric treatment—a crucial detail that exposes the depth of the mental health crisis hidden behind the doors of seemingly ordinary middle-class homes.
This is not merely a shocking crime headline. It is a piercing alarm about the direction in which humanity is moving.
Once upon a time, the bond between a mother and her child was considered the most sacred, most unbreakable expression of love known to humankind. Ancient scriptures, spiritual traditions, and even modern psychology have long described maternal love as instinctive, selfless, and almost divine in its purity. Yet today, in the year 2025, we are witnessing cases where this very bond fractures so violently that a mother can take the life of her own child over something as seemingly minor as a language preference.
What does this tell us about the state of our collective mind?
We live in an era of unprecedented speed, pressure, and disconnection. Urban India, especially in satellite cities like Navi Mumbai, has become a paradox: gleaming high-rise societies, educated professionals, nuclear families, and material comfort on the surface—yet underneath, silent storms of anxiety, depression, identity conflict, and untreated mental illness rage unchecked.
The woman in this case was not a monster. She was a B.Sc. graduate married to an IT engineer—someone society would label as “normal” and “educated.” She was already seeking psychiatric help. Yet the help was either insufficient, inconsistent, or came too late to prevent the tragedy. Years of frustration over her daughter’s speech issues and linguistic preference boiled over into an irreversible act of violence. A child’s innocent inability to speak “correctly” in her mother’s preferred tongue became the lightning rod for years of accumulated emotional pain.
This incident is not isolated. Across India and the world, we are witnessing a sharp rise in cases of filicide (parents killing their children), often linked to severe untreated or inadequately managed mental health conditions—postpartum depression, major depressive disorder, psychosis, extreme stress, or personality disorders exacerbated by social isolation.
The deeper malaise is societal:
- Nuclear families have replaced extended family support systems, leaving young parents emotionally and practically alone.
- The stigma around mental health remains so powerful that many suffer in silence rather than seek sustained, quality care.
- Social media bombards us with images of perfect parenting, perfect children, perfect homes—creating impossible standards.
- Economic pressure, long working hours, and the constant race for status leave little space for emotional recovery or inner reflection.
- Cultural and linguistic identity conflicts, which should be sources of richness, sometimes become weapons of resentment and control.
We have built skyscrapers of concrete and glass, but we have not built adequate emotional infrastructure. We have invested heavily in physical development but woefully under-invested in mental and spiritual health.
As someone who has dedicated years to promoting holistic wellness, mindfulness, and spiritual reconnection through Go Spiritual, I see this tragedy as a symptom of a much larger spiritual and psychological emergency. When the mind becomes disconnected from compassion, patience, empathy, and the deeper wisdom that every soul is worthy of unconditional love—regardless of how it speaks, learns, or behaves—then even the most sacred relationships become vulnerable.
Maternal love is not supposed to be conditional. It is supposed to be the closest earthly reflection of divine love. Yet in our current age, we have made love conditional upon performance, conformity, and linguistic or cultural alignment.
This child’s death could have been prevented.
With early, consistent, and stigma-free mental health intervention. With family counseling that addresses intergenerational trauma and cultural pressures. With community support that notices when a mother is drowning in silence. With spiritual practices that cultivate inner stillness, patience, forgiveness, and the understanding that love is not earned—it is given freely.
We cannot continue pretending that mental health is a luxury issue. It is now a survival issue.
To every parent reading this: if you are struggling, please reach out—today. To every family member, neighbor, colleague: please learn to notice the signs of emotional distress in those around you. To policymakers and institutions: please treat mental healthcare with the same urgency you give to physical infrastructure.
At Go Spiritual, we are committed to expanding accessible meditation programs, mental-spiritual wellness workshops, awareness campaigns, and content that reminds people of their deeper, loving essence. We believe healing begins when we remember who we truly are—beyond language, beyond achievement, beyond expectation.
In memory of this little girl whose life was taken far too soon, let us resolve to build a world where no mother reaches such a breaking point, and no child pays the price for our collective failure to care for the mind and soul.
The world is going mad. But madness can be healed—only if we choose to act before more innocence is lost.
May her soul rest in eternal peace. And may her loss awaken us to the urgent work of healing the human heart.
Sonu Tyagi Intro: Sonu Tyagi, the visionary leader behind Go Spiritual and Approach Entertainment, is dedicated to enriching lives by merging spirituality with artistic innovation. A seasoned writer, director, and producer, Tyagi has left a notable mark on advertising films, music videos, web series, feature films, and branded entertainment. Through Approach Entertainment, he guides a dynamic organization renowned for its expertise in celebrity management, film production, advertising, corporate films, film marketing, and event management. He also oversees Approach Communications, a leading PR and integrated communications agency, and Approach Bollywood, a specialized outlet for Bollywood and entertainment news.
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