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LOST SPRING

By Anees Jung

About the Author  Anees Jung is an Indian female author, journalist and columnist who writes for major newspapers in India and abroad. She was born in Rourkela and belongs to an aristocratic family in Hyderabad. Her father, Nawab Hoshyar Jung, who was a renowned scholar and poet, worked as the musahib (adviser) to the last Nizam (prince) of Hyderabad State. And her mother and brother are also well-known Urdu poets.  Jung hit the headlines with the publication of ‘Unveiling India in 1987’, which is primarily a travel diary that focuses on interviews with women. She went on write many subsequent books on the same topic, and talked to women about their everyday lives, and wrote books like ‘Night of the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim women in India’ (1993) and Seven Sisters (1994). Her book ‘Breaking the Silence (1997) includes conversations on women’s lives from around the world.

Vocabulary

Scrounging – searching for

Glibly - speaking or spoken in a confident way, but

without careful thought or honesty

Hollow – meaningless

Embarrassed - feeling ashamed

abound - exist in large numbers

bleak – empty

perpetual state of poverty - never ending condition of

being poor

Desolation - the state of being empty

Panting - taking short and quick breathes

Desolation - the state of being empty

Panting - taking short and quick breathes

Acquaintance - contact

periphery- outer area

metaphorically–symbolically

squatters - a person who unlawfully occupies

an uninhabited building or unused land

wilderness- a wasteland

tarpaulin- heavy-duty waterproof cloth

Transit homes – a temporary home

looms like a mirage - seems that it will be true in the future but

actually it will not be so

Unkempt – not taken care of

Shanty town - a town that is full of small, roughly built huts

Drab – faded, colourless

Sanctity - the state of being sacred or holy

Draped – covered

Vicious – cruel

Hauled up – dragged, taken away

Apathy – lack of concern

Stigma – dishonor

Hurtling down – moving around

Summary (Part I) : ‘ Sometimes I Find a Rupee in the Garbage’ - Saheb-e-Alam (A rag picker)

The first part tells the writer’s impressions about the life of the poor

rag pickers. The rag pickers have migrated from Dhaka and found a

settlement in Seemapuri (India). Their fields and homes had been

swept away by storms (Socio Political Unrest). They had come to the

big city to find a living. They are poor. The writer watches Saheb every

morning scrounging for “gold” in her neighbourhood. Garbage is a

means of survival for the elders and for the children it is something

wrapped in wonder. The children come across a coin or two from it.

These people have desires and ambitions, but they do not know the

way to achieve them. There are quite a few things that are

unreachable to them, namely shoes, tennis and the like. Later Saheb

joins a tea stall where he could earn 800 Rupees and all the meals.

The job has taken away his freedom.

Gist: ( Sometimes I find a rupee in garbage) 

The author examines and analyses the impoverished conditions and

traditions that condemn children to a life of exploitation these

children are denied an education and forced into hardships early in

their lives.

The writer encounters Saheb – a rag picker whose parents have

left behind the life of poverty in Dhaka to earn a living in Delhi.

His family like many other families of rag pickers lives in

Seemapuri. They do not have other identification other than a

ration card.

The children do not go to school and they are excited at the

prospect of finding a coin or even a ten rupee note for rummaging

in the garbage.

It is the only way of earning.

The writer is pained to see Saheb, a rag picker whose name

means the ruler of earth, Lose the spark of childhood and

roams barefooted with his friends.

From morning to noon the author encounters him in a tea

stall and is paid Rs. 800 He sadly realizes that he is no longer

his own master and this loss of identity weighs heavily on his

tender shoulders.

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