English Confluence By CL Gautam

Ch-2 Lost Spring by Anees Jung “The Stories Of Stolen Childhood”              INTRODUCTION TO THE LESSON Lost Spring is a meaningful title of the reporting of plight of rag-pickers by Anees Jung. It refers to the plight of thousands of little rag-pickers in Delhi and the bangle-makers in the U.P. town of Firozabad. These kids have lost their present and also their future. They will never see or feel the spring of their carefree childhood or their blooming youth. They have become wage- earners at a very early age. They look for little coins in garbage dumps. They are barefoot and in rags. Only a handful of them can dream of getting the discarded tennis shoes to wear or become a car mechanic. Their parents had migrated to Delhi from Bangladesh in 1971. For all these years they have been working as rag-pickers and living in dirty, dingy and stinking slums. The second part of the report is about the glass-blowers and bangle-makers in Firozab...