I spent my life asking people to look at those whom society prefers not to see, so I look at this child and wonder whose stories he could lift up if adults guided him wisely. A spiritual voice with such reach could speak about disabled children, children of labourers, children in conflict zones, not just about rituals in comfortable halls. But that can only happen if he himself is not being exploited or overworked, if his schooling, health and choices are carefully guarded. The real test of everyone's intentions will be whether they are willing to slow down the content machine when he looks tired, to say no to a lucrative event that clashes with exams, to keep a fund in his name for the future rather than spending everything now. Since we signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child, we pretend to put the child's best interests first; this is one of those moments when that phrase must become reality, not slogan. Otherwise all this talk of seva is just another costume worn for the camera.