Changing times.. new expirences
Roots
la_femme | 03 May, 2004 22:28
Ramesh - does not know his age. Must be 6-7 years old. Used to carry logs.
Another guy - I asked him why he did not go home for vacation. He did not reply. When I asked him where his parents live, he says - they are dead. This guy was 5-6 years old.
Another guy - used to work at a small hotel. Wanted to study to be able to recognize boards and get a driving licence.
A gal - She used to work @ a retired DSP's place in Hyd. They used to beat her up. She dialed random phone numbers all the time when no one was at home to ask people the phone number of the Cheif Minister ( she saw an election campaign in which the CM said he'll get children study ). When a politician came to campaign @ retd. DSP's place she took his phone number from him . She used to call him up for a week but then he never responded. Finally a lady on a "random" number called up a TV channel (TV9) who traced the location and they came wid the crew and police. They rescued the gal. She then guided them to her the place where her sister was a bonded labour. This gal was 12 years old and one of the most confident gals of her age some of us have seen.
There were many more kids who were rescued from bonded labour - some were into domestic help, working in hotels, carrying in logs, working in agriculture, working as shepards, working with stone, etc. They were all really young and full of innocence and energy.
We spoke to a representative to get an idea about what MVF does and interacted with a few children. We asked them a few questions and pradyumna was really happy that a kid culd spell his name correctly. He pointed to shameek and told the kid - go and ask him the spelling of my name - even he cannot come up with da correct spelling
Those of us who knew Telugu could speak to more people. Amit, Shameek and Ashish were the ones who needed continous translation.
Yet to digest all this and give it a thought.
General |
Next | 
Previous |
Comments (1) | 
Trackbacks (0)
Comments
1Menu
Search
Calendar
| « | January 2026 | » | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | Su |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |
[No Subject]
JLU | 03/05/2004, 23:28
I'm thinking about the 'respected' retired Dy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and his action which speaks volumes of his social responsibility. Unfortunately this country is administered by people like these, and it's no surprise what they do to it.