Mobile and Murder

I am comfortably seated in the Klipper Bar at the Mumbai airport. It would have been very comfortable if it was not a "dry day" on account of Visarjan of Ganesha. I will bear this inconvenience with a smile.

But just heard over the Star News someting that is a fitting epilogue to the earlier post!
What would you do if you suspected a fellow student of stealing your sister's mobile phone? Come now this is less sinster a design on your sister that a fellow footballer had on Zidane's sister, surely.

I guess most of us would (if we were strong enough) accost the suspected thief and sternly ask him to return the phone ..... otherwise.... . If we were a bit timid, we would complain to the teacher, if we were very shy but clever, we would run a quiet campaign in the school... if we were extra sensitive, we would blame our sister for being negligent with her phone!

Hold it, hold it! Did i forget to mention that you are only 14 years of age and in class eight. In which case some of the options that I mentioned may not be avialble to you.

Here is a serious sister loving, criminal hating kid... When he suspected his fellow student, mind you suspected, of pinching his sister's mobile what does he do? He kills the boy! Charming, isn't it?

So is there any doubt in your mind that by the time he is in college, he would be a potential successor to those who are currently accused of killing their professor in another part of India.

Yes, no prizes for guessing, this news is from the national capital of Delhi.

My suggestion:

Like MMR, Polio, etc. etc. are given to children at an early age to keep them alive from marauding viruses and bacteria; every children above 10 needs to compulsorily consult a shrink and his/her profile be maintained. This would make at least the parents aware of where they have gone right and where they have gone wrong and where to put that check. So that when your child on growing up kills, maims, rapes, you will not say "but he/she was not like that"!

Cut the crap, parents, invest time and not money on your kids and teach them to be good human beings.