Saw the movie Agneepath with friends yesterday. A good plot, and excellent acting. Though that does not prevent you from being horrified. Right at the start, three 12-year old boys rape their classmate. 12-year old! If cinema is a mirror of the society in general, is this the society we want our kids to grow up in? The gaaonvale are quick to execute the benign master, but no one raises a finger against the antagonist, who publicly hangs people. And yes, there is no police station in the gaon. The worst is yet to come.. human trafficking of underage girls, and auctioning them off.
Just yesterday, I was reading about illegal immigration from Mexico into the US. In the movie, Hrithik doesnt chide his girlfriend for employing Nepali girls in her beauty parlour. My roommates dint see anything wrong with this. According to them, those Nepali women are in the quest of a better future. It is good that they got a job under a sober person rather than turning to prostitution. I remembered a comment I had read earlier..it is not the US government's duty to feed these illegal immigrants. If poverty is the root cause for trafficking, it should be dealt with locally than burdening their well-to-do neighbouring countries. .
India faces a 2-way brunt. Women and children are trafficked into the country and forced to serve some perverts and paedophiles. I remember a documentary seen in school about paedophiles molesting kids in Goa. Similarly poor people are lured with false promises of a high paying job as nannies/ butlers in the Middle East and there they lead a life of forced servitude. Further search led me to some reports on the Sonagchi area in W. Bengal. Reading the comments written on these sites by Indian males was so repulsive.
Any solution? The Agneepath master could have forbade all the students- girls/ guys to enter school after-hours. We need to have better laws with severe punitive actions against pimps, madams and coyotes. The real solution is to identify those sex-starved perverts and paedophiles, and imprison/ institutionalize them. But in a country like India, it could be easy to get away with crimes like these because of loopholes in the state laws. Hence, the likes of Goa government need to wake up..the future of the children should be a higher priority than worrying about losing tourism revenue due to bad publicity. And, in fact the harm is already done. UK has blacklisted tourism to Goa post Scarlett Keating murder. Most importantly, we need to shed that chalata-hai attitude. This blazing path may char those few honest and brave feet, but will make the life's journey easier for multitudes.
Just yesterday, I was reading about illegal immigration from Mexico into the US. In the movie, Hrithik doesnt chide his girlfriend for employing Nepali girls in her beauty parlour. My roommates dint see anything wrong with this. According to them, those Nepali women are in the quest of a better future. It is good that they got a job under a sober person rather than turning to prostitution. I remembered a comment I had read earlier..it is not the US government's duty to feed these illegal immigrants. If poverty is the root cause for trafficking, it should be dealt with locally than burdening their well-to-do neighbouring countries. .
India faces a 2-way brunt. Women and children are trafficked into the country and forced to serve some perverts and paedophiles. I remember a documentary seen in school about paedophiles molesting kids in Goa. Similarly poor people are lured with false promises of a high paying job as nannies/ butlers in the Middle East and there they lead a life of forced servitude. Further search led me to some reports on the Sonagchi area in W. Bengal. Reading the comments written on these sites by Indian males was so repulsive.
Any solution? The Agneepath master could have forbade all the students- girls/ guys to enter school after-hours. We need to have better laws with severe punitive actions against pimps, madams and coyotes. The real solution is to identify those sex-starved perverts and paedophiles, and imprison/ institutionalize them. But in a country like India, it could be easy to get away with crimes like these because of loopholes in the state laws. Hence, the likes of Goa government need to wake up..the future of the children should be a higher priority than worrying about losing tourism revenue due to bad publicity. And, in fact the harm is already done. UK has blacklisted tourism to Goa post Scarlett Keating murder. Most importantly, we need to shed that chalata-hai attitude. This blazing path may char those few honest and brave feet, but will make the life's journey easier for multitudes.
deepika, there are no illegal immigrants from nepal to India. You do not need visa to enter nepal nor do nepalese need visa to enter India. If a Canadian enters USA then it is not illegal immigration. You can compare USA-mexico situation with India-Bangladesh situation.
ReplyDelete"The real solution is to identify those sex-starved perverts and paedophiles, and imprison/ institutionalize them. But..."
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding? You are suggesting a social, well-planned ostracism for those who have been '(in several ways) identified as xyz'.
Oh yes.. dont know how it slipped my mind. The border with Nepal is an open border to promote regional trade.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, our family structure is honor-based, and will be the 1st to shield the wrongdoers. "kuch bhi karo ji mere mannu ko bachao" [sic No one killed Jessica]. Maybe a social pressure could help?