A SINGLE drop of water fell on his head, and from that instant it was as though Badri was reborn. He was a new man.

I read his story in Kompas of January 19 last. It made me believe that maybe, after all, there are miracles—another word for amazing things. This version of miracle did not come to the world in any spectacular fashion. It crept in, inconspicuously.

Badri lives in a kampung that is part of Desa Tugu Utara, Cisarua, Bogor. For yea