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Saturday, 16 October 2021 | Pioneer

Cunning edge

The unprecedented number of young women trafficking drugs in Kerala is disturbing

Friday marked Vijaya Dashami and the conclusion of  this year's Navratri Puja. The day is celebrated to mark the victory of good over evil. In Kerala, meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of tiny tots got initiated into the world of letters. Parents and teachers made them write the first letters of the alphabet, a ritual to mark their ‘graduation’ as students. In Sanskrit, the word Guru is made up of two letters: 'Gu' means darkness while 'Ru' stands for remover. The one who removes darkness is the Guru. It is the teachers who mould future citizens. No wonder, teachers were accorded the status of God in ancient India. Things have changed a lot and it is foolish to expect that customs and tradition would remain constant though there are some values which should never change. The relation between a teacher and student should remain eternally the same because it is imbibed in Indianness. The trigger to point out these values is the recent arrest of a school teacher at Ernakulam for being a drug trafficker. Susmitha Philip, who has been employed as a teacher at a high-end public school in the city, was arrested by the police for being an agent and drug pusher among the young and old alike.

Susmitha was one of the prime sources who supplied narcotics to rave parties, the police say. The investigators are yet to get the details of students who have been converted into addicts by this special “teacher”. One of the disturbing trends being seen in the State is the arrest of an unprecedented number of young women in connection with drug trafficking. They are good-looking, fluent in English and Hindi and well-mannered, the mandatory requirements to succeed in Kerala. Nobody would be able to resist when they stride into the hearts with their sweet talk. Narcotic traffickers are employing all tricks in the game of marketing which may baffle even multinational enterprises. Rajasthan-born Rishiraj Singh, a brilliant IPS officer who was the director of the Excise Department, had warned the Government and society about the alarming increase in drug trafficking in the State. Not a single day passes in Kerala without reports of drug seizure and sexual abuses. Deployment of women and drug traffickers is the new modus operandi. Are the authorities listening? Would they care enough this Dussehra to ensure that kids' innocence doesn't lose out to the evil?

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