Veiled Thoughts ׀ Cached Experiences

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     The interventions made by NGOs and CSRs are widely discussed these days as a solution for issues which are inherent in our system. Our governmental machinery lacks certain essential features and most of these NGOs concentrates on areas which are abandoned by the respective governments. It is not a danger and civil society participation is really good and inevitable in our system 1. Until the participation of these players are not resulting in the withdrawal of state from welfare activities and 2. If they are not misusing the feelings of those so-called abandoned, marginalized people or/and if they are not implementing indirectly the vested interests of influential groups/foreign powers. All other issues can be brought under these two wide categories. The two conditions mentioned above is unavoidable in a Democracy and if an intervention fails to comply with these conditions; it is in fact undermining Democracy. I would like to talk about a panchayat called Kizhakkam

          A migrated community is always an outsider in a foreign setting. Migration occurs for various reasons. Sometimes it is forced and sometimes people choose to migrate if better opportunities are available somewhere else compared to their "home".  But the notion of ‘choice’ is debatable in this scenario as the options available to them are not equally appealing ones and that’s why they prefer to migrate. Trafficking is a major source of migration and unlike the popular understanding, it’s not just women who are trafficked but men and children are also trafficked on a large scale. Migration is a widely discussed issue these days because of the migration from politically unrest countries in the Middle East to Western European countries. But media neglects the issues in South East Asian countries like Bangladesh and Myanmar for political reasons. Kerala model of development and the heavy migration of its people to Gulf countries is famous across the world. State’s HDI