Just saw “Sairat”. It’s been the most depressing since the
Syrian chemical attack killing children. Un-comparable event/situation but the
movie is a transparent portrayal of honour killing. And because I just “think”
about stuff and not “Do” anything about it, I thought let me first gather what
are the gravest of all horrendous that disturbs me the most and what ‘could’ be
the true solutions to these.
As we take birth, there are two things which we deserve. Love
and a healthy childhood. And three evils today which deprive selected
individuals of these are – ISIS/Syria crisis, child trafficking and honour
killing. At least these are the ones which kill me the most! I can’t believe
love and children can trigger hatred or crime!
ISIS/Syria crisis is outside my physical or rational reach.
It just pains me and I know nothing about it other than bits and pieces of
story that comes in media. And even though Afghanistan, Syria, Iran etc. had
always been countries of extreme intrigue, I doubt if I can ever be on those
lands to experience the extensive divide between love and crime.
Coming to our own country and its shames.
Honour killing has a single root cause. And I had written
earlier about it (http://monalees.blogspot.in/2014/05/go-west.html).
So arranged marriage and caste system need to be abolished, however radical or
harsh it may sound. Since the government is still struggling on the Triple
Talaq issue, this is like a dream few light years away. Even though Tinder is
gaining more popularity than matrimonial sites in urban areas; in our villages
and towns arranged caste based marriages, dowry and hence female foeticide is
so commonplace. Honour killing is a subset of that. Coming to think of it,
digital has a lot of potential to improve our Indian society. If there is such
a plan of gamification to improve the society? You get brownie points for every
good step taken like not doing a caste based marriage- added on your Adhaar
card. The trigger points can range from doing a social cause to paying right
tax in time to voting etc. These points can be redeemed for things like
reducing income tax, getting priority service at government institutes etc. But
for this to work, we need a very good database of our population which is beyond
biometrics.
And criminal database needs to be stronger. I think all
criminals and potential criminals should have GPS devices( and in near future
may be neural laces to tap their mind for any criminal activity) implanted in
their bodies. The movements can be tracked baselined with expected BAU
movements automatically and alerts generated otherwise.
Child trafficking is a reality. I know instances of children homes
which are epicentres of such activity. A powerful malicious network exist which involves the controllers and influencers both. At so many traffic signals
in Mumbai they are visible begging. But there’s nothing that is done. Of all problems
we have in India, this is the easiest to solve with the right governance. But
again a strong law and order situation with a great criminal database and
digital police networking (mobile/ wearable collaboration) can pull these out
of its roots. Am sure if police be empowered with these cool stuff, they will invariably
perform and excel. And it would be much
easier to track non performing officials and am hoping would work in demonetised
India. Also I think the society need to be more pro-adoption. However better we
build our childcare homes, a child still needs a family. I think, child
adoption should have the highest brownie points, as much as to nullify tax Or
maybe getting auto subsidies on various things if you adopt a child.
A last thing which comes to my mind is a single NGO
aggregator should be there which needs to be a government initiative. An
interface which drills down to your social interest area/geography where you
can contribute easily. As an output you get to see the usage of your contribution.
For e.g. If you are interested to educate a child and provide monetary
contribution, you get to see various options for contribution (irrespective of
the back end NGOs) and your money is channelized accordingly. The NGO using
your money has a mandate to provide visible and exclusive output for you.
So much so in the minds. I pray and hope I spring to action
soon.
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