Do not forget the children for money

Having come back to India after 8 years abroad I came back to a new India. I came back worrying will my kids settle, will we earn same as abroad. Now 4 years into the system, I see a new India where I live- people have hobbies, kids take vacation abroad, children take a gap year before college. But what we are not seeing is the ghettos around us the poor the marginalised, the beggars at the red light are still there while we rush for our gym class. I now wonder what India are we going towards. There is amnesia about our poor, dementia is setting in at the slums around us, we are blind to our maids not even having water to drink in their slum while our children fight who will go in the shower first.

Our television, our newspapers sell the sleazy, the conspiring, the daily breaking expose’s.

My heart felt out to the demise of 14 year old Nirbhaya from Delhi forced to drink acid tortured in the heart of India the capital and the same police claiming a 14 year old changed her statement daily so the accused could not be caught, quietly forgetting the bruises, the injuries and the pain- can any 14 year old inflict it on themselves. For the first time I realised she was from the slums the marginalised section where people don’t matter they are herds subhumans perhaps the Indian apartheid. The recent change to child labor law sends chills down my spine because now even the nobel laureate of India who has given his life to fight child rights can do nothing because sonu a poor 14 year old can be sold for life to the so called family business can be marked present in local school in absentia by bribes so that the economic necessities of the country can be met. The reason is the poor the downtrodden the hungry don’t matter, neither do their children.

Please please lets wake up. Because if we don’t protect our own we are no different from the terrorists, the bandits, the evil.

Appeal to all of you please urge the government to investigate how could Nirbhaya 2 happen why was it not prevented, why are new the child labor laws ensuring legal enslavement of small hands we are supposed to nurture and protect.