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Lost Spring (Stories of Stolen
Childhood)
By: AneesJung
Lesson No. 2 _Part I_ from Flamingo Class XII English Core
Childhood)
By: AneesJung
Lesson No. 2 _Part I_ from Flamingo Class XII English Core
Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood
Introduction
This chapter is divided into two parts.
The first part describes the plight of the poor rag pickersof Seemapuri. The Second part
describes the miserable conditions of the bangle-makersof Firozabad.
First hand experience with poverty and traditions prevailing in some parts of India.
The Title: Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood
The story, “Lost Spring” describes the pitiable condition of poor children who have been
forced to miss the joy of childhood due to the socio-economic condition that prevails in
this man-made world. These children are denied the opportunity of schooling and forced
into labourearly in life.
AneesJung gives voice to eliminate child labourby educating the children and to
enforce the laws against child labourby the governments strictly through these stories.
Introduction
This chapter is divided into two parts.
The first part describes the plight of the poor rag pickersof Seemapuri. The Second part
describes the miserable conditions of the bangle-makersof Firozabad.
First hand experience with poverty and traditions prevailing in some parts of India.
The Title: Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood
The story, “Lost Spring” describes the pitiable condition of poor children who have been
forced to miss the joy of childhood due to the socio-economic condition that prevails in
this man-made world. These children are denied the opportunity of schooling and forced
into labourearly in life.
AneesJung gives voice to eliminate child labourby educating the children and to
enforce the laws against child labourby the governments strictly through these stories.
Author-AneesJung
Born at Rourkela, India in 1964
She is an Indian woman author, journalist and columnist. She belongs to an aristocratic family of
poets.
Her most noted work, Unveiling India (1987) was a detailed chronicle of the lives of women in
India.
Her book ‘Lost Spring: Stories of stolen childhood’ published in 2005 focuses on children from
deprived backgrounds.
Born at Rourkela, India in 1964
She is an Indian woman author, journalist and columnist. She belongs to an aristocratic family of
poets.
Her most noted work, Unveiling India (1987) was a detailed chronicle of the lives of women in
India.
Her book ‘Lost Spring: Stories of stolen childhood’ published in 2005 focuses on children from
deprived backgrounds.
Characters
Saheb-he is a rag picker from Seemapuri, Delhi. He has simple dreams. He
believes in promises made to him.
The Narrator-AneesJungshe is a social worker who empathizes with the
slum-dwellers and honestly portrays their pitiable lives.
Saheb-he is a rag picker from Seemapuri, Delhi. He has simple dreams. He
believes in promises made to him.
The Narrator-AneesJungshe is a social worker who empathizes with the
slum-dwellers and honestly portrays their pitiable lives.
Sometimes I find a Rupee in the
garbage
The story opens up with a question asked by narrator to the Saheb.
Why do you do this?
Encounter of narrator with Sahebevery morning when he is scroungingfor gold in the garbage
dumps of narrators neighbourhood.
Sahebfrom Dhaka. Storms in 1971 swept away their fields and homes.
So they came to New Delhi and settled in Seemapurilooking for gold.
I have nothing else to do SahebAnswers-
Go to school narrators reply.-She realizes how hollow the advice
Half joking says if she starts school will he come?
Sahebsays yes smiling broadly.
garbage
The story opens up with a question asked by narrator to the Saheb.
Why do you do this?
Encounter of narrator with Sahebevery morning when he is scroungingfor gold in the garbage
dumps of narrators neighbourhood.
Sahebfrom Dhaka. Storms in 1971 swept away their fields and homes.
So they came to New Delhi and settled in Seemapurilooking for gold.
I have nothing else to do SahebAnswers-
Go to school narrators reply.-She realizes how hollow the advice
Half joking says if she starts school will he come?
Sahebsays yes smiling broadly.
Saheb-e-Alam-Lord of Universe
She felt embarrassed for making a promise that was not meant.
After months she asks his name: Saheb-e-Alam.-Lord of Universe
Does not know meaning
Roams the street with his friends,
An army of barefoot boys-comparison with morning birds who disappear at noon.
Knows them for over the months.
Not wearing Slippers
Give various reasons-mother did not bring them down from shelf/they them off/ tradition
to stay barefoot.
Reality-they don’t afford it-an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty.
She felt embarrassed for making a promise that was not meant.
After months she asks his name: Saheb-e-Alam.-Lord of Universe
Does not know meaning
Roams the street with his friends,
An army of barefoot boys-comparison with morning birds who disappear at noon.
Knows them for over the months.
Not wearing Slippers
Give various reasons-mother did not bring them down from shelf/they them off/ tradition
to stay barefoot.
Reality-they don’t afford it-an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty.
Narrator remember a man from Udipi
Narrator remember a man from Udipi.
As a young boy he would pass a temple where his father was a priest and
pray for a pair of shoes. The man was a child of priest. He used to pray for
a pair of shoes.
30 years latter the author visited his town
found a new priest there living in the temple backyard.
She noticed the young boy of the priest now wearing a school uniform
and a pair of shoes.
The conditions were changed.
As against this the rag pickers still remain barefoot.
Narrator remember a man from Udipi.
As a young boy he would pass a temple where his father was a priest and
pray for a pair of shoes. The man was a child of priest. He used to pray for
a pair of shoes.
30 years latter the author visited his town
found a new priest there living in the temple backyard.
She noticed the young boy of the priest now wearing a school uniform
and a pair of shoes.
The conditions were changed.
As against this the rag pickers still remain barefoot.
Author’s Visit to Seemapuri
The acquaintance with rag pickers take her to Seemapuri
A place on the periphery of Delhi-yet miles away from it metaphorically.
Place is home to 10,000 other shoeless Rag pickers like Saheb
they are all Bangladeshi refugees who came here back in 1971
they live in very poor conditions in mud structures with roofs of teen and
tarpaulin
the place has no running water facility
no drainage
the rag pickers have lived here for the past 30 years
without identity yet they have valid ration cards
The acquaintance with rag pickers take her to Seemapuri
A place on the periphery of Delhi-yet miles away from it metaphorically.
Place is home to 10,000 other shoeless Rag pickers like Saheb
they are all Bangladeshi refugees who came here back in 1971
they live in very poor conditions in mud structures with roofs of teen and
tarpaulin
the place has no running water facility
no drainage
the rag pickers have lived here for the past 30 years
without identity yet they have valid ration cards
Garbage is Gold
not having an identity does not bother them if at the end of the day they don't sleep with
empty stomach
they prefer to live here rather than in the fields at home which give them no grain
they who once lived in the beautiful land of Green Fields and rivers are now compelled to
pitch their tents wherever they find food
children are born in them and become partners in Survival
and survival in Seemapurimeans rag picking
over the years rag picking has become an art
garbage is gold to these Rag pickers, it is there only support and means of income
Sahebtells the author that sometimes it finds a Rupee even a 10 rupee note
not having an identity does not bother them if at the end of the day they don't sleep with
empty stomach
they prefer to live here rather than in the fields at home which give them no grain
they who once lived in the beautiful land of Green Fields and rivers are now compelled to
pitch their tents wherever they find food
children are born in them and become partners in Survival
and survival in Seemapurimeans rag picking
over the years rag picking has become an art
garbage is gold to these Rag pickers, it is there only support and means of income
Sahebtells the author that sometimes it finds a Rupee even a 10 rupee note
One winter morning and Tennis Shoes
One winter morning the author sees Saheboutside the fence gate of the neighbourhood
club
he is watching a game of tennis
Sahib seems to be fascinated by the game
He tells the author that sometimes the guard let him in and then he can ride the swing
the author notices that Sahebis wearing tennis shoes
Sahebtells her that someone gave them to him
the fact that some rich boy discarded the shoes because there was a hole in one of them
does not bother him
for Sahebwho has walked his whole life barefoot, it is like a dream come true.
One winter morning the author sees Saheboutside the fence gate of the neighbourhood
club
he is watching a game of tennis
Sahib seems to be fascinated by the game
He tells the author that sometimes the guard let him in and then he can ride the swing
the author notices that Sahebis wearing tennis shoes
Sahebtells her that someone gave them to him
the fact that some rich boy discarded the shoes because there was a hole in one of them
does not bother him
for Sahebwho has walked his whole life barefoot, it is like a dream come true.
Sahebworks at the tea stall
One morning the author sees Sahib on his way to the milk booth
he is carrying a steel canister
he informs the author that now he works at the tea stall and is paid rupees
800 and all his meals.
the author feels that Sahib is not happy
his face has lost its carefree look
the Steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag
the bag was his but the canister belongs to the owner of the tea stall
Sahebis no longer his own master.
One morning the author sees Sahib on his way to the milk booth
he is carrying a steel canister
he informs the author that now he works at the tea stall and is paid rupees
800 and all his meals.
the author feels that Sahib is not happy
his face has lost its carefree look
the Steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag
the bag was his but the canister belongs to the owner of the tea stall
Sahebis no longer his own master.
Words/Phrases
Scrounging –searching for
Mutters –to speak in a low voice
Glibly -speakingorspokenin
aconfidentway, but withoutcarefulthought
or honesty
Hollow –meaningless
Embarrassed -feeling ashamed
abound -exist in large numbers
bleak –empty
Shuffles -slides them over each other
perpetual state of poverty -never ending
condition of being poor
Desolation -the state of being empty
Panting -taking short and quick breathes
periphery-outer area
metaphorically–symbolically
squatters -a person who unlawfully occupies
an uninhabited building or unused land
wilderness-a wasteland
tarpaulin-heavy-duty waterproof cloth
Tattered –torn
Discarded –thrown away
Scrounging –searching for
Mutters –to speak in a low voice
Glibly -speakingorspokenin
aconfidentway, but withoutcarefulthought
or honesty
Hollow –meaningless
Embarrassed -feeling ashamed
abound -exist in large numbers
bleak –empty
Shuffles -slides them over each other
perpetual state of poverty -never ending
condition of being poor
Desolation -the state of being empty
Panting -taking short and quick breathes
periphery-outer area
metaphorically–symbolically
squatters -a person who unlawfully occupies
an uninhabited building or unused land
wilderness-a wasteland
tarpaulin-heavy-duty waterproof cloth
Tattered –torn
Discarded –thrown away
Notice the Expressions
looking for: try to locate or discover
Slog their daylight hour: struggle persistently during the day time
Roof over his head: a place to live
perpetual state of poverty:endless impoverishment
dark hutments: encampment of huts devoid of any light
imposed the baggage on the child: force the profession on the child
looking for: try to locate or discover
Slog their daylight hour: struggle persistently during the day time
Roof over his head: a place to live
perpetual state of poverty:endless impoverishment
dark hutments: encampment of huts devoid of any light
imposed the baggage on the child: force the profession on the child
Think As you Read
1. What is Saheblooking for in the garbage dumps?
2. Where is Saheband where has he come from?
3. What explanations does the author offer for the children not wearing
footwear?
4. Is Sahebhappy working at the tea-stall? Explain.
1. What is Saheblooking for in the garbage dumps?
2. Where is Saheband where has he come from?
3. What explanations does the author offer for the children not wearing
footwear?
4. Is Sahebhappy working at the tea-stall? Explain.
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