The Surakshit app tells you how to identify when a person is touching you the wrong way

My child is only three years old. She is sociable, talkative and warms up easily to strangers. It puts her at some risk and I am in a very tough situation. While I do not want to curb her spontaneity, ebullience, I am always on my guard, bristling almost every time someone I do not know well enough, or at all, comes close to her, playfully pulls her cheeks or even offers her a candy. Heck, I am also the kind of hawk-eyed mom who stands guard in a shoe shop when the salesman helps her try something on. I am paranoid. It is ugly. It is also a reflection of the world we have created for our children.

It is every parent's nightmare — a touch that ends innocence- a touch from a stranger, from someone the child trusts, or is scared of. I was thrilled to know that there is now an app that could help parents and children learn about a good touch and a bad one, inappropriate talk, gesture or social behaviour. And I decided to put it to test.