We need outrage, not just from people in India but from the whole world community, against child labour. Child labour is in fashion now in the media . It's fashionable to talk about child labour - but child labour is not fashionable. It's a reality for the children who are working. You have spoken about the breakdown of traditional communities.
Fathers stay out drinking, wasting the family income.
But I think saying no to parental irresponsibility has to come about not by legislation but from social pressure building up. You make it sound as if mothers tend to be super-responsible but powerless, while fathers have more power to do what they want but misuse it. I don't want to sound like that, Anuradha, but look at what's happening in Kerala, look at what's happening in Tamil Nadu, now that the mothers have started to feel empowered. No more liquor was available in these villages because the women saw to it. I think it is possible for women, when they get together, to make changes like this.