A twitchy dilemma

A ten year old boy serves tea on all floors of our office building. He works all day and gets paid Rs 2000 per month for  his efforts. Today we talked to him at length only to find out that he doesn't want to work (which is quite natural considering his tender age). He has a brother (younger or elder I don't know) and his parents in his family.

The boy has joined a new school now which would engage him from 12 - 5 P.M. everyday and would continue with his job from 5 P.M - 11 P.M.

We asked him to quit his job and concentrate on his studies and playing. We agreed to help him out by giving him his salary amount as well without having to work. This would help him to take care of his expenses and also would keep him away from the work which he doesn't like.

I somehow could not convince myself that this was the right way to go about it. I have a feeling  that his move of ours might jolt his personal life and his relationship with his parents, brother and everyone associated to him. This philanthropy of ours might help him to get free time but would it necessarily be a good change in his life? We debated over this at length at our office and couldn't reach a conclusion.

Now I sought opinion of all the readers for a deeper analysis of this problem and the possible solutions. May be you can suggest a better way of going about this or even not going about this.

What all can be done? 

Mumbai blasts 2011 - We need 100 % result just like the Delhi University

Once again the city of dreams and ambition has been jolted and as expected, the following day of the blast has been full of blame game. BJP and Congress are giving stray dogs a complex with their fights and our 'great' congress leader Digvijay might be busy trying to find a RSS angle to the blasts. Rahul Gandhi feels that all these attacks form only 1 % (thank god that it is not more) of the total attacks planned against India. I swear many of us would have been dead had it been 2 or 3 %. And at the end of the day, normal services resume.

Mumbaikars have no option but to get back to their routine (which media calls Mumbai's spirit) and the victims are helpless and so are we as tomorrow it could be us and one day it will surely be us. Politician bashing is the first thing that comes to our mind and in a way it helps us get over the trauma. But no words could ever console the victims and their families. Time is the only healer for them.

The thing that troubles me the most is what were our intelligence and security doing? These blast spots were no wasteland or city outskirts. These places are the buzzing ones and have always been on the terror radar. Home minister says that there was no clear cut intelligence available. Was he hoping that terrorists would publish a full page ad in a national newspaper with exact date,time and venue? Dear PC, for god's sake don't give us that sh#t.

I don't want to compare India to the US or the  U.K. but we can't give up on this as if these attacks are like earth quakes and tsunami which are almost impossible to control. We blabber about diversity, man power and intelligence and yet we are the ones who are targeted again and again. 

Please be proactive and take actions to make ourselves capable of achieving the 100% that congress joker Rahul Gandhi (who must be aware of the pain of losing the dear ones more than most of us) has talked about.

PM says that we won't spare the perpetrators. I m sure they would be arrested after 20 yrs and then would be convicted for lifetime after another 20 yrs of court trial.

For India's sake dear PM, hang Kasab and Afzal Guru so that we can feel that you have done at least something apart from heading the most corrupt and shameless govt. of our times.

Let us also become more aware and vigilant and fight our own battle because even god wants us to help ourselves first and only then He would help