Question

what is the summary of "lost spring" of flamingo ??

Answer 1

Chapter ‘Lost Spring’ by Anees Jung highlights the problem of child labour in India. The author does so by taking two different episodes. The first episode deals with the problem of rag pickers of Seemapuri situated at the outskirts of Delhi. The children of rag pickers are suffering from direst of poverties and are forced to resort to ragpicking. She interacts with a rag picker boy named Saheb-E-Alam, who wishes to go to school but cannot. After a few months he gets the job of an assistant at a tea-stall, but he loses his freedom, though he earns rupees 800/- monthly.

In the second episode she makes us aware of the problem of child labour involved in bangle-making industry in Firozabad. She interacts with a boy named Mukesh who works as a worker in glass blowing unit in unhygienic conditions. She takes the readers to Mukesh’s home where they see the abject poverty of these people. She also lets the readers know the corruption present in Government, courts, and police departments due to which these poor people are trapped in a web of poverty. The corrupt officers and officials are in league with the rich middlemen who force them to live children like Saheb-e-Alam and Mukesh in perpetual poverty.

Answer 2

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I remember I story a man from you once told me as a young boy he would go to school past and old temple where is father was a please he would stop briefly at the temple and pray for a pair of shoes 30 years later I will Street his town and the temple which was not found in an air of dissolution in the backyard where lift the new pressed where their varied and white plastic chairs a young boy dressed in a grey uniform earnings socks and shoes arrived the painting and their the school bag on a folding bad looking at the boy I remember the prayer another boy