<p>Seven-year-old Sai Sriram is not aware that his parents V Chandrasekhar and Anupama are likely to undergo jail sentence in Oslo in Norway on Monday and that he may not see them for a while.<br /><br />However, a steady stream of reporters and photographers at his grandfather’s house at Miyapur on the outskirts of Hyderabad made him realise that there was something wrong. <br /><br />Monday will be a critical day when an Oslo court may sentence his mother to 15 months and father to 18 months in jail.<br /><br />Sai Sriram is also unaware that his parents have been arrested in Norway on a charge of “repeated maltreatment of their child/children by threats and violence.” His two-year-old brother Abhiram, who still needs his mother for his feeding, looks dazed and forlorn. Abhiram cries often and has been running a fever. He is also asthmatic.<br /><br />According to Dr Kalyan Chakravarthy, Sriram holds himself responsible for what has happened to his parents. “He thinks that he was kept away from his parents at a foster home because of his ‘bad behaviour’ in Oslo. <br /><br />And now they have disappeared because he has been ‘naughty,’ ” the doctor says. Sriram was taken away by the child welfare agency in Norway for eight weeks earlier this year on a suspicion that the child was being “scolded and intimidated” at home.<br /><br />Dr Chakravarthy says Sai Sriram has been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactive disorder but is responding positively to treatment. <br />Depression</p>.<p>“But the absence of both parents is not helping him to recover fast; the trauma is actually reinforcing his fears.” Both brothers are not eating well and their grandparents are not able to cope with the sudden turn of events.<br /><br />Chandrasekhar’s mother, Srilakshmi, is crestfallen. “This shows how my daughter-in-law and my son used to love and care for the children. I don’t know how to console the kids,” she said.<br /><br /> “My daughter had done BTech, but she decided to remain a homemaker. All her attention went to her children,” says Anupama’s father. “Sai Sriram had been a difficult child, who needed more patience and understanding.<br /><br />“It’s true that Sai Sriram had been occasionally reprimanded by his parents but this is our way of upbringing children. According to western perceptions, it may appear draconian and abusive, “a member of Chandrasekhar’s family said. <br /><br />Both Chandrasekhar and Anupama had sought help from the authorities in Oslo in dealing with Sriram. “All they got was separation from their loved ones and a probable jail sentence,” said many members of Chandrasekhar’s family.<br /></p>
<p>Seven-year-old Sai Sriram is not aware that his parents V Chandrasekhar and Anupama are likely to undergo jail sentence in Oslo in Norway on Monday and that he may not see them for a while.<br /><br />However, a steady stream of reporters and photographers at his grandfather’s house at Miyapur on the outskirts of Hyderabad made him realise that there was something wrong. <br /><br />Monday will be a critical day when an Oslo court may sentence his mother to 15 months and father to 18 months in jail.<br /><br />Sai Sriram is also unaware that his parents have been arrested in Norway on a charge of “repeated maltreatment of their child/children by threats and violence.” His two-year-old brother Abhiram, who still needs his mother for his feeding, looks dazed and forlorn. Abhiram cries often and has been running a fever. He is also asthmatic.<br /><br />According to Dr Kalyan Chakravarthy, Sriram holds himself responsible for what has happened to his parents. “He thinks that he was kept away from his parents at a foster home because of his ‘bad behaviour’ in Oslo. <br /><br />And now they have disappeared because he has been ‘naughty,’ ” the doctor says. Sriram was taken away by the child welfare agency in Norway for eight weeks earlier this year on a suspicion that the child was being “scolded and intimidated” at home.<br /><br />Dr Chakravarthy says Sai Sriram has been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactive disorder but is responding positively to treatment. <br />Depression</p>.<p>“But the absence of both parents is not helping him to recover fast; the trauma is actually reinforcing his fears.” Both brothers are not eating well and their grandparents are not able to cope with the sudden turn of events.<br /><br />Chandrasekhar’s mother, Srilakshmi, is crestfallen. “This shows how my daughter-in-law and my son used to love and care for the children. I don’t know how to console the kids,” she said.<br /><br /> “My daughter had done BTech, but she decided to remain a homemaker. All her attention went to her children,” says Anupama’s father. “Sai Sriram had been a difficult child, who needed more patience and understanding.<br /><br />“It’s true that Sai Sriram had been occasionally reprimanded by his parents but this is our way of upbringing children. According to western perceptions, it may appear draconian and abusive, “a member of Chandrasekhar’s family said. <br /><br />Both Chandrasekhar and Anupama had sought help from the authorities in Oslo in dealing with Sriram. “All they got was separation from their loved ones and a probable jail sentence,” said many members of Chandrasekhar’s family.<br /></p>
