Who was saheb and what was ironical about his name? Describe saheb lifes and the life of the barefoot army of ragpickers in seemapuri
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The irony in Saheb's name is this: his full name is Saheb-E-Alam, which means the Lord of the Universe. Quite contrary to the meaning of his name he does the menial job of rummaging through garbage mounds to collect recyclable plastic or the like. This contrast between the meaning of his name and the poverty-stricken life is the irony of his name.
There are hundreds of children like him living in Seemapuri on the outskirts of Delhi; these poor children in India are forced to live an impoverished life. They have inherited from their poor parents slums and poverty. In order to make ends meet, they are forced to do the work of rag-picking. They don’t have enough facilities to go to school and come out of the vicious circle of poverty. They roam here and there collecting garbage from garbage yards, wearing tattered clothes and walking bare feet on the hard roads of life.
Saheb was a child from Bangladesh whose full name was Saheb-e-Alam. His name is very ironical to what type of life he had to live in his real life. The meaning of his name signified lord of the universe but in reality, he lacked basic requirements of life. He used to collect the recyclable plastics from the garbage.
The children in the Seempuri village were poverty-stricken and did menial jobs. They were exposed to the worst condition of living. They are the rag pickers and didn't have the provision of having education or basic facilities. The wore tattered clothes and roamed in the village in barefoot.