Child Labour in India

This certainly was not the kind of story that one ever wishes to anticipate.

However, today Indian news channels broke an absolutely horrible news story - 'A 10 year old boy beaten to death in Delhi by his employer'. Moin, a young boy from Bihar worked in a bindi factory in Delhi and was severely beaten up by his employer, who also happens to be his uncle. This act of brutality would have gone unnoticed. Thanks to the guards at a Delhi Muslim graveyard who became suspicious after noticing injury marks on the dead body of the little child. They then contacted the police, unfortunately the perpetrators escaped.

I dont know if they are going to be able to find the accused, I am not sure if the are ever going to be seriously bothered !

You may see a bit of cynicism here, but I simply cannot help it - when is this going to stop !!! ?? Child labour is one of the biggest problems that we are facing as a country ! Yet half of us, and by that I mean some of us who are apparently educated and aware don't really care. We don't mind the fact that some of domestic helpers are actually underaged children, not an emotion in us stirs any more at the sight of a child begging for alms. Oh, the immediate response has always been - '' No , lets not spoil them. This is a racket ! '' As much as I agree that poor little children are being victimised by this massive racket throughout the country, I have to say that all the rest of us do is pass our judgement and carry on. What are you really doing about it ? For heaven's sake stop talking - if there this doesn't bother you, then you better stop pretending like it does ! If you are too busy complaining about you adult lifestyle, then you might as well learn something from these little homeless and helpless children who are facing the kind of hardships that you and I have cannot imagine going through in our lives.

I am agitated ! How are we as a prospective world power allowing this to happen ? A blind eye and all we can come up with is condemn such incidents and tragedies by discussing about them for a few moments. Evidently, this is not enough and to be honest it hasn't made much difference ! I feel very strongly and do believe that we as a nation need to tackle child labour a lot more seriously. If you have a problem with the corruption in India, and hate your ministers for evading taxes then how can you not have a problem with this kind of treatment to our children ? On second thoughts, is that why we don't bother ? Because technically these kids aren't our children. They are not our son's and daughters, our nieces and nephews ! Perhaps, this is why we're still cold to this issue. I don't know if this attitude is ever going to change, I do sincerely hope that it does.