[Reader-list] Bicycle Dreaming is a Fictional Still Biographical Account of Those Who Take Away Your Discards

[Kabir Khan]

*Bicycle Dreaming is a Fictional Still Biographical Account of Those Who
Take Away Your Discards
<http://wastenarratives.com/2016/02/18/bicycle-dreaming-is-a-fictional-still-biographical-account-of-those-who-take-away-your-discards/>*On
a sultry afternoon, while taking a nap- Have you heard someone screaming
‘paper, bottle’ outside on the road. I am sure you have. You must be
annoyed as the noise would have disturbed you and woken you up from your
peaceful sleep. A mobile man on a bicycle with gunny bags on the either
side, requesting you too sell the waste items- like paper, plastic and
glass bottles, and at times metal. He is probably the only vendor on the
street who pays you, in return of providing service of waste disposal.
*Kabadiwala
*– itinerant buyer, that’s what we call him. Have you ever thought what it
is to be like a Kabadiwala -an urban nomad, moving around the city to fetch
waste? What kind of life does he have? Does he have family and children
like yours? What are the aspirations do those children have? *‘Bicycle
Dreaming’
<http://www.amazon.in/Bicycle-Dreaming-Mridula-Koshy/dp/9385755161/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1455794019&sr=1-1>
*a novel by Mridula Koshy is a glance of Kabadiwala’s life and the
aspirations of his daughter Noor and son Talib.


*“Noor’s father was a kabadiwala. He rode his bicycle from his home as
early as seven thirty on some mornings… Change was important in Mohammad
Saidullah’s line of work. When he finished weighing the goods- stacks of
old newspaper, used up school notebooks, not a blank page left and the
covers fallen apart, glass bottles empty of ketchup and liquor, metal tins
sharp edged at the rim- and named what he was willing to pay to haul away
these discards, the householders all claim that they have no change. If he
quoted Rs 18- a fair price for a good sized load that would earn him at
least five rupees more when resold to recycling factory- they would pocket
his twenty and shake their heads ‘no’. They didn’t have two rupees change
for him.” *

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