Spare The Children

Some people are overtly sentimental about the continuation of certain social malpractices like child marriage. And these people are still, well into the twenty-first century, hell-bent in sticking to such malign and malicious practices, by hook or by crook. That is why an anganvadi activist like Shakuntala Verma has her hand chopped off, by miscreants supporting the vice that child marriage is. No law has proved capable enough to prevent proliferation of the evil. That is because fear of certain sick traditions of an otherwise rich cultural heritage overwhelms the fear of law.