"Listening to them, I see two distinct worlds...."in the context of Mukesh, the bangle maker's son, which two worlds is Anees Jung referring to?
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Anees Jung is referring to two worlds— one of Mukesh’s family and the other of shahukars, the middlemen, the policemen, the keepers of law, the bureaucrats, and the politicians. The world of shahukars, the middlemen, and the policemen, the keepers of law, the bureaucrats, and the politicians has trapped the poor bangle makers in a vicious circle. Their evil nexus does not let them be free. Approximately 20,000 children work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light, often losing the brightness of their eyes. Thus the bangle-makers of Firozabad live in a state of perpetual poverty and exploitation.
“Listening to them, I see two different worlds…”, the author here is talking about two families, one caught in the web of poverty, burdened by the stigma of caste in which they were born and the other is the vicious circle of sahukars, the middleman, policemen, the keepers of law, the bureaucrats and the policemen. All of them together they have put the burden on Mukesh that he cannot keep aside. Before he is aware, he accepts it naturally like his father. For him to do anything else would mean to dare.