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LOST SPRING

BY ANEES JUNG

Anees Jung
Indian author
Description Anees Jung is an Indian author, journalist
and columnist for newspapers in India and abroad,
whose most known work, Unveiling India was a
chronicle of the lives of women in India, noted
especially for the depiction of Muslim women behind
the purdah.
Born: 1944 (age 76 years), Rourkela
Nationality: Indian
Education: Osmania University, University of Michigan
Books
Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood (2005)
Unveiling India (1987)
Breaking the Silence (1997)
↓
MAIN CHARACTERS OF THE
STORY
↓
SAHEB- E- ALAM
↓
LIVES IN SEEMAPURI
↓
CAME FROM DHAKA
↓
IS A RAGPICKER
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REASON FOR MIGRATION
↓
STORMS, NATURAL CALAMITY
↓
CAME IN SEARCH OF GOLD, (MEANING MONEY FOR
SURVIVAL)
↓
NO HOPE OF GOING TO SCHOOL AS THERE IS NONE
IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
↓
HIS FULL NAME - SAHEB-e-ALAM
MEANING LORD OF THE UNIVERSE
↓
NAME IS IRONICAL ISN’T IT?
↓
OH! HE IS A RAGPICKER
↓
THERE IS AN ARMY OF BAREFOOT BOYS
(REFERENCE TO RAGPICKERS)
DIFFERENT EXPLANATIONS GIVEN TO REMAIN
BAREFOOT
↓
: MOTHER DID NOT BRING THEM FROM THE SHELF
:ANOTHER COMMENT - HE WOULD THROW THEM
AWAY
:THIRD CHILD SAYS “ I WANT A PAIR OF SHOES”

STORY OF UDIPI ( IN KARNATAKA ) TO BE


NARRATED
SLUMS OF SEEMAPURI

SEEMAPURI A PLACE ON THE PERIPHERY OF DELHI


SHARP CONTRAST BETWEEN DELHI AND
SEEMAPURI
↓
PEOPLE ARE SQUATTERS FROM BANGLADESH
(1971)
HOUSES MADE OF TIN AND TARPAULIN
NO SEWAGE SYSTEM, DRAINAGE,RUNNING
WATER,NEARLY 10,000 RAGPICKERS LIVED THERE
NO IDENTITY, NO PERMITS, BUT THEY HAVE RATION
CARDS, THEY HAVE FOOD IN SEEMAPURI AND SO
THEY DO NOT WANT TO RETURN BACK TO DHAKA
PEOPLE HAVE TRANSIT HOMES
DELHI IS WELL ESTABLISHED WITH ALL FACILITIES
↓
CHILDREN ARE PARTNERS IN SURVIVAL - HOW?
↓
COLLECT GARBAGE ( ARE RAGPICKERS)
↓
GARBAGE IS THEIR DAILY BREAD, A ROOF OVER
THEIR HEADS, GOLD (FIND A RUPEE SOMETIMES OR
AT TIMES TEN RUPEES
↓
GARBAGE HAS DIFFERENT MEANING FOR THE
PARENTS AND FOR THE CHILDREN → FOR
CHILDREN IT IS WRAPPED IN WONDERS BUT FOR
THE PARENTS IT IS A MEANS OF SURVIVAL
↓
CHILDISH LONGING OF SAHIB → TO OWN TENNIS
SHOES AND TO PLAY TENNIS
↓
SAHEB’S FREEDOM GETS CURTAILED → WORKS
FOR A TEA STALL OWNER, GETS Rs.800,ALL THE
MEALS, BUT NO FREEDOM, HAS TO FOLLOW THE
ORDERS OF THE TEA STALL OWNER, TEA CANISTER
SEEMS HEAVIER THAN HIS GARBAGE BAG,HE IS NO
MORE HIS OWN MASTER, HAS TO FOLLOW THE
ORDERS GIVEN BY THE TEA STALL OWNER

THEME OF EXPLOITATION
MUKESH, A BANGLE MAKER
↓
LIVES IN FIROZABAD
AMBITION OF MUKESH
↓
WANTS TO BE A MOTOR MECHANIC, WANTS TO
DRIVE A CAR
↓
PEOPLE ARE IGNORANT, NEGLIGENT,DO NOT KNOW
THAT CHILD LABOUR IS AN EVIL, A CRIME
↓
DREAM SEEMS LIKE A MIRAGE (AN UNREALISTIC
HOPE) AS THE FAMILY PROFESSION IS BANGLE
MAKING
↓
HAZARDS OF WORKING IN A GLASS BANGLE
INDUSTRY
- WORK IN DINGY CELLS WITHOUT AIR AND
LIGHT
- HIGH TEMPERATURE IN THE FURNACE
- DUST FROM POLISHING THE BANGLES IS
INJURIOUS TO EYES
- THEY OFTEN LOSE THEIR EYESIGHT BEFORE
THEY BECOME ADULTS
- EYES ARE MORE ADJUSTED TO DARKNESS
THAN TO BRIGHT LIGHT
↓
CONDITION OF MUKESH’S HOUSE AND
ENVIRONMENT
- STINKING LANES CHOKED WITH GARBAGE
- HOVELS (SIMPLY CONSTRUCTED HOUSE) WITH
CRUMBLING WALLS
- WOBBLY ( SHAKY) DOORS
- NO WINDOWS
- ANIMALS AND HUMANS LIVING TOGETHER IN
SMALL SPACE
↓
OBSERVATION OF ANEES JUNG ON ENTERING THE
HOUSE
- IT WAS A HALF BUILT SHACK
- ROOF COVERED WITH DRY GRASS
- IN ONE CORNER WAS A FIREWOOD STOVE, A
LARGE VESSEL WITH SIZZLING SPINACH
LEAVES
- CHOPPED VEGETABLES
- FRAIL (WEAK AND THIN) YOUNG WOMAN
COOKING EVENING MEAL
- SMOKY ATMOSPHERE
↓
REFERENCE TO THE YOUNG WOMAN
- MUKESH’S ELDER BROTHER’S WIFE
- TAKES CARE OF MUKESH, HIS ELDER
BROTHER, AND THEIR FATHER
- COVERS HER FACE WITH A VEIL ( PARDAH)
WHEN THE FATHER RETURNS HOME,
WITHDRAWS BEHIND THE BROKEN WALL ( ACC.
TO INDIAN CUSTOM AND TRADITION)
↓
FATHER’S OCCUPATION AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- FIRST WORKED AS A TAILOR
- THEN A BANGLE MAKER
- HAS FAILED TO RENOVATE THE HOUSE
- SEND HIS TWO SONS TO SCHOOL
- ONLY TAUGHT THEM THE ART OF MAKING
BANGLES
↓
SUPERSTITIOUS ATTITUDE OF MUKESH’S
GRANDMOTHER AND OTHER PEOPLE
- REFERS TO IT AS ‘KARM’, DESTINY
- FEELS THAT A GOD GIVEN LINEAGE CANNOT BE
BROKEN
- THEY CANNOT CHANGE THEIR PROFESSION
↓
VARIOUS COLOURS OF BANGLES AS MENTIONED IN
THE STORY
- SUNNY GOLD
- PADDY GREEN
- ROYAL BLUE
- PINK, PURPLE
- RAINBOW COLOURS
- LIE IN THE UNKEMPT (DIRTY) YARDS, FOUND
PILED UP ON THE CARTS
↓
IRONY IN THE MAKING OF BANGLES
- BANGLES ARE MADE BY SMALL CHILDREN
- SIGN OF SANCTITY IN MARRIAGE
- BUT PEOPLE GO BLIND AT AN EARLY AGE
- DO NOT GET EVEN ONE PROPER MEAL A DAY
AS MENTIONED ‘EK WAQT SER BHAR KHANA
BHI NAHIN KHAYA’
- ARE ABLE TO HAVE A ROOF OVER THEIR HEAD
↓
PEOPLE UNABLE TO FORM COOPERATIVES WHY?
- PEOPLE ARE TRAPPED IN A VICIOUS CIRCLE OF
MIDDLEMEN
- HAULED UP BY THE POLICE AND BEATEN FOR
DOING SOMETHING ILLEGAL, DRAGGED TO JAIL
- NO LEADER TO GUIDE THEM
- THE CONDITION IS
POVERTY⤵
INJUSTICE APATHY
⬑ GREED ⟵
↓
TWO DISTINCT WORLDS AS MENTIONED IN THE
LESSON

THE FAMILY CAUGHT IN THE OTHER IS THE


THE WEB OF POVERTY WORLD OF SAHUKARS,
THE MIDDLEMEN,THE
POLICEMEN, THE
BUREAUCRATS,THE
POLITICIANS, THE
KEEPERS OF LAW

THE FAMILY IS - ILL TREAT THEM


BURDENED BY THE - EXPLOIT THEM
STIGMA OF CASTE IN - ARE GREEDY
WHICH THEY ARE BORN - INHUMAN ATTITUDE
- COMPEL THEM NOT
TO CHANGE OVER
THE PROFESSION
- TO FOLLOW THE
FAMILY LINEAGE

↓
AMBITION OF MUKESH
- TO DRIVE A CAR, WORK AS A MECHANIC
- READY TO GO TO THE GARAGE AND LEARN
- READY TO COVER THE LONG DISTANCE TO
THE GARAGE
- DOES NOT DREAM BIG ( TO FLY AN
AEROPLANE AS THAT IS NOT IN HIS REACH)
- DETERMINED TO FULFIL HIS AMBITION
↓
REASONS FOR MIGRATION FROM VILLAGES TO
CITIES
- IN SEARCH OF JOB
- BETTER CIVIC AMENITIES
- DUE TO NATURAL DISASTERS LIKE FAMINE,
EARTHQUAKE, EPIDEMIC, STORMS
- WARS
- FOR BETTER EDUCATION
- BETTER LIFE STYLE

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