Thank you Joe UK for bringing up this societal issue. Very true. It is usually alcohol, drugs and sex. I see youngsters who appear to be 14 or 15 year olds, congregate in secluded areas at all times of the day or night. Many of them have backpacks as though they have just come from school or college. Instead of books, there is alcohol in those backpacks. Often there are young girls sitting behind on the scooter or motorcycle. Invariably the young girls have covered their hair and faces with scarves or dupattas, almost as though they are in purdah, so that they cannot be recognized. So it is obvious that they know that they are doing something wrong.
If one goes by the site where these kids congregate, after they have left, you will find all kinds of beer bottles, whisky bottles, soda bottles, water bottles, discarded cigarette packets, chips packets. They have the money to buy all this booze, and their parents give them scooters etc., assuming that they are going to school or college. Parents are too busy working very hard to make a living. Parents feel guilty about not having enough time for their offspring, so they indulge them with lots of pocket money, scooters, motorcycles etc .I dont know what drugs look like or smell like, but I am told that many of these kids are "pot heads" smoking ganja or whatever, taking all kinds of illicit pills. Naturally they lose their inhibitions and indulge in sex. Parents will say - "No my child will never do such things". but are they keeping tabs on their children ? What is their future ? I am old now. In my time we had to walk everywhere. Getting half an anna so I could rent a bicycle for half an hour to learn to cycle was a big deal. Parents could not afford to give us even half an anna (this about 8 paisa). We worked very hard to better ourselves because we knew the value of education and working hard to better ourselves. I dont know what the future holds for these wayward kids who seem to be increasing in numbers.
