2026年6月14日、17年前に母乳で育てたジャコウネコが、息子の教科書に載っていたJune 14, 2026 — The wild civet cub she cared for 17 years ago turned up in her son's schoolbook
🇮🇳 インド・アッサム州ナガオン県カンプルKampur, Nagaon district, Assam, India
インド北東部アッサム州ナガオン県カンプルで2009年、ヤシの木から落ちた野生のジャコウネコの子(通称バカット)を、アンジャリ・サイキアさんが自分の生後6カ月の息子と一緒に育てた。それから17年後の2026年、当時の赤ん坊だった弟ギボン・サイキアさんがナヴォダヤ校で10年生(高校1年相当)の英語教科書「Words and Expressions 2」第6課を開いたところ、そこに掲載されていたのが自分たち家族とバカットの物語だったことに気づいた。ギボンさん自身がその写真の赤ん坊だったことも、教科書を読むまで知らなかったという。この逸話はもともとドキュメンタリー監督ロメル・シュンムガム氏が10日間かけて現地取材し記録していたもので、CBSE(中央中等教育委員会)の10年生教材に採用されていた。
In Kampur, Nagaon district, in India's northeastern state of Assam, a wild civet cub fell from a coconut tree in 2009. Anjali Saikia took in the orphaned cub, later named Bhakat, and raised it alongside her own six-month-old son. Seventeen years later, in 2026, that son — now known as Gibon Saikia — opened Unit 6 of his 10th-grade English textbook, "Words and Expressions 2," at his Navodaya school and realized the story printed there was about his own family and Bhakat. He hadn't even known, until he read the textbook, that he was the baby in the photographs. The story had originally been documented over ten days by documentary filmmaker Rommel Shunmugam, and was later adopted into the Class 10 curriculum of India's Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
「17年前に母乳で育てたジャコウネコが、息子の教科書に載っていた」— assamtribune.com — https://thunderhead.news/record/the-wild-civet-cub-she-cared-for-17-years-ago-turned-up-in.html
“The wild civet cub she cared for 17 years ago turned up in her son's schoolbook” — assamtribune.com — https://thunderhead.news/en/record/the-wild-civet-cub-she-cared-for-17-years-ago-turned-up-in.html
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