Usually I am not perturbed by horrific demographic stats on India. Maybe I have gotten "used" to it. Maybe it is the default.
But just came across this stat which I could not help but share. "State of Children report on India notes that nearly 40% of adolescent children are out of school and nearly 43% of adolescent women are married before the age of 18".
And this is 2016. Where are these children? Why don't we see them? Why don't we talk about them(except in Habitat centre and Rajya Sabha TV!) leave alone doing anything about it. Is it the class difference? Is India all about the Delhi & Bombay bubble? Is it economics? Is it inequality? Or Social Norms? Geography? Sheer size? Development?
Ananya
But just came across this stat which I could not help but share. "State of Children report on India notes that nearly 40% of adolescent children are out of school and nearly 43% of adolescent women are married before the age of 18".
And this is 2016. Where are these children? Why don't we see them? Why don't we talk about them(except in Habitat centre and Rajya Sabha TV!) leave alone doing anything about it. Is it the class difference? Is India all about the Delhi & Bombay bubble? Is it economics? Is it inequality? Or Social Norms? Geography? Sheer size? Development?
Ananya
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