Those innocent eyes, the infectious smile hidden behind all the hardships and troubles that engulf their lives, the ever eager hands, always ready to help. Those little hearts which need very little to make it happy. You will find them everywhere you go
At a construction site as their parents try to make ends meet, covered with the cement dust these 4-5 year olds try to give their parents a helping hand by helping the chaiwala serve tea or carry bricks. These little hearts seem so happy and relaxed in their surroundings, the desire for the latest toy car, or the latest superman dvd is totally alien to them, it’s the construction site filled with stones, mud and cement which is their playground where they try their hand on guli danda or cricket, and the earth is their bed and the new construction sites they move to with their parents is home.
At the chaiwala you will find these 6 -7 year old energetically washing the chai glasses, serving you chai and happily collecting your glasses back. In spite of washing glasses after glasses and serving the hundreds of chai drinkers throughout the day, there doesn’t seem to be an element of monotony or boredom in their eyes. With every serving of chai there is that innocent smile for you.
At traffic signal, in trains
These are the slightly street smart variety, the child entrepreneur kinds. They will come selling anything from newspapers, to pirated books, to flowers, to cleaning your cars, to singdana with excellent marketing slogans” Didi, yeah book bahut acha hai, award winning hai, last copy hai, didi lei lo na “ one 7 year old tells me, trying to persuade me be to buy a pirated Maximum City. It’s not an easy job for these kids, running between cars at traffic signals in rain or sun shine, minding their belongings and selling them in crowded trains, keeping peace with other fellow vendors. The survival instinct in these little stars has made them shun their innocent days of childhood to learn the tricks of the trade or should be say the survival trade.
They are everywhere this little child, my heart goes out to them. What wrong have they done god that they cannot even cherish the joys of childhood….
3 comments:
very touching...brought tears in my eyes
Rachna
for a minute i was wondering what was the first comment all about... anyway...
the article is very touching... & really the smiles on their faces can brighten up someone's day
Hey but then problem you is know what?? Here most of us just wanna make comment like its bad,it should be changed,this is wrong etc....
But hardly any of us comes forward when it comes to real help....
Only we kan bring about any changes ......
And i will be happiest man when i will be the reason of smile on several faces....The BIG REAL SMILE........
nyways nice script......
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