[Reader-list] Fwd: [YSC] Little Indians‏

[Lalit Ambardar]

08-11-2009

 

The sight of a young beggar
is usually a moment of personal shame & uneasiness for many but there is
helplessness. A tiny figure with a heavy satchel hanging from the tiny
shoulders following in step with the ‘little master’ just disembarked from the
school bus enjoying a choco-bar is a very common scene in the streets in any
given afternoon. The irony in children wearing colourful labelled T-shirts over
their own soiled ones joyfully (…???...) selling at traffic junctions, different
periodicals that often carry editorials on child labour, children’ s rights,
right to education etc. etc. does exist too. Framed ‘No child labour’
declaration hanging at the entrance gate not withstanding tiny hands continue to
be holed up inside the factories. 

 Have we as a society come to actually accept what
should be most unacceptable that is being indifferent towards the less
fortunate who seldom experience their childhood? 

 

One wonders if  these little ones figure at all in the national census &
any scheme of affairs..???....

 

Regards all 

LA

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>  * Little Indians.
> --------------
> *
> Millions of little Indians, Hindus Muslims and others
> for them no law, no land, no fathers mothers brothers.
> 
> They slave in little tea shops, they beg along the road,
> they sleep upon their little feet, they have no bed, no board.
> 
> Government makes new budgets of which they are no part.
> Governments feed on government grants, they eat their little heart.
> 
> The rich perform ablutions to please the gods above;
> the gods return their favours and increase their treasure trove.
> 
> Little Indians find employment in hell holes we call factories;
> their lungs fill up with poison gas, government collects the taxes.
> 
> Some little Indians go to public school in bus or car or jeep;
> a million others look for food in wayside garbage heap.
> 
> Their schools are in Government file, their meals are part of Plan,
> but when nation needs an atom bomb, they eat whatever they can.
> 
> Little Indians, they are taught to sing 'mera bharat mahan';
> Little Indians wipe their hunted eyes - they wonder what is on.
> 
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