CRIME AGAINST CHILDREN UP BY 24%: SOME COMMENTS

Crimes against children up by 24%
Kounteya Sinha, TNN Oct 5, 2012, 04.00AM IST

NEW DELHI: India is fast earning itself the dubious distinction of being a country unsafe for its children with an alarming 24% increase in crimes against children in 2011 compared to the previous year. Nearly 33,100 cases were reported in 2011 against 26,694 cases during 2010.

Uttar Pradesh accounted for 16.6% of total crimes against children in 2011, followed by Madhya Pradesh (13.2%), Delhi (12.8%), Maharashtra (10.2%), Bihar (6.7%) and Andhra Pradesh (6.7%).

The link is ; http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-05/bhubaneswar/34278283_1_foeticide-cases-abduction-child-victims

We all should feel ashamed that such a thing is happening in our country indicating that our love for our children in on the decline. This not only happening in our country alone. This has become alarmingly global phenomenon. I was participating in a debate among on child rights in Germany years back. I was surprised to know that in Germany the crime against the children is quite high. Besides, the Germans are doing the same thing in other countries. The general underastanding is that those adults who were the victims of the crime in their childhood are the the main culprits. This must be true in India as well.

This is a rising spiral. Please note that the children who are victims of in their childhood will grow up to commit crime against their own children. When will this stop? And How? Is it part of our Million Development Goal(MDG)?

Thoughts on Gandhi's Birthday

I love  Gandhi and strongly  believe in Gandhian principles to the core. I have also read him extensively and on him as well. Two books which have made profound impact on me are Hind Swaraj and Gram Swaraj. I urge all my  my friends to read these two books to change one’s world view   I have tried to practice some of his experiments but I have to confess that my spirit is high but flesh is weak.

I am currently reading a book – KHADI: GANDHI’S MEGA SYMBOL OF SUBVERSION- written by Peter Gonsalves and published by Sage to pay tribute to Gandhi on his birthday. To fight the British and Colonialism, Gandhi adopted many strategies and one of the best one was to underscore Khadi – spinning and weaving – to be self-reliant. It was the best tools of subversion  which  was used by millions unarmed Indians.

In the book, the author has analysed various subversions in different chapters as follows:

• Subverting Self
• Eco-political Subversion
• Psyco-Cultural Subversion
• Socio-Religious Subversion-Untouchability
• Socio-Religious Subversion-Militancy
• The Philosophy of Gandhian Subversion through Khadi

The quote the author : Gandhi’s evolving awareness of semiological and political properties of clothing; his resolute use of Khadia as a metaphor of subversion in major dimensions of life , his adherence to the principles and values underlying a clear-cut strategy for socio-political change.

The way neo-colonialism is unleashed on us and the way we are forced to lose our sense of self-reliance, we are in search of a new method and a new tool of subversion. Please think it over and join the process os this search to save this great country and its people. Lets us have a resolution in honour of our great Gandhiji.