Lost spring, years of numbling toil have killed all initiative and the ability to dream
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The workers who labour in the bangle industry could not aim or dream for a better future. They did not have the freedom to decide on their destination. This was because they suffered poverty and for years they have been doing mind-numbing labour. This has killed their initiative and their ability to dream.
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This line from the chapter Lost Spring by Anees Jung means the bangle makers of Firozabad have stopped taking any imitative and to dream to improve their lot.
Whenever they tried to do so the shahukars, the middlemen, the policemen, the keepers of law, the bureaucrats and the politicians did not let them take those initiatives. They did not let them form cooperatives and sell their own products at fair price. Even the Government did not do anything for them.