P erverts are on the increase in my home state, Kerala.
Newspapers are no longer squeamish about reporting indiscriminate rapes.
The victims are invariably children. Parents of young girls have become nervous wrecks, living in perpetual anxiety. They are not sure if the girls will return from school, unscathed. Till recent times, we were not acquainted with crime. During feudal times I was a little child and could not connect the death of any poor girl of the locality with crime.