While their counterparts enthusiastically proceeded to school on reopening day in Bellary, rag-pickers near Raichur began the week with a different kind of burden on their backs on Monday.
Photographs: Karnataka Photo News
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Tags: Churumuri, Karnataka Photo News, KPN, R.K. Narayan, Sans Serif
1 June 2010 at 2:14 pm
Ragpickers – what a life with so much of life in them! what future do they hold! and so many in numbers .. so many young dreams told to lie on rags!!
The untouchables. The illegitimates. The diseased. The beaten and bruised.
Shame on our society. Shame on Us for withstanding.
Kindly request people whenever you see them lend a helping hand with food and clothes to them atleast if not anything more.
Really tear jerking.
1 June 2010 at 2:30 pm
Great contrast – Everything that needs to be said about this has been said – Enough said!
1 June 2010 at 3:41 pm
Seeing images like this makes one realize how far we need to go. Some days back I was in a train going to Delhi, and the last few kilometres before Hazrat Nizamuddin station, I could see huge mountains of rubbish every 200 metres. Worse, several children (dozens of them) were climbing those rubbish heaps and salvaging whatever they could. This was the scene in all 20-25 mountains of rubbish I could see from the window…
1 June 2010 at 4:25 pm
A tragic comparison. But it is the fact. We need to identify these pockets of poverty and help them up in life. You may call it Reservation, and cry foul. But this reservation should be there and grass root level identification and implementation is the focal issue here.
1 June 2010 at 10:50 pm
Very touching photos. Looking at these images
Can anybody tell whats wrong in fighting a war against those/system responsible(or just incapable of changing) for the situation in the last 63 years?
Given the current socio political status of our country what is the realistic time you think things will change for good(if at all it happens)?
2 June 2010 at 7:49 am
Good presentation. It has been the policy of the Government of the day to make rich richer and the poor poorer and bring the middle class to the lower level. All in India should play cricket. There is a report today that the Indian team will not be taking part in the Asian games, must be because there is no money in it for the players and they have to undergo WADA drug test guide lines. What a paradox!
2 June 2010 at 9:36 am
Free and compulsory education would be the solution to these differences that are prevailing in our country.
2 June 2010 at 9:46 am
This post brought tears to my eyes. (Really). No thanks to Churumuri.
2 June 2010 at 10:28 am
Oh. Churumuri, you have this knack of slapping us all out of our comfy zones.
Last quarter Indian economy grew by 8.4%. Does that mean anything to these children?
2 June 2010 at 12:52 pm
Right for Education? Where is Kapil Sibal??
2 June 2010 at 1:02 pm
We all feel and should feel moral responsibility for the plight of these children and many million other children who die of hunger and disease unseen unheard unreported in our rural hellholes.
More than us it is the responsibility of our elected and chosen leaders starting from PM to CMs to Corporators to Village panchayat members of this country. They should become foster parent to at least one poor child to several hundreds depending on their status of their public post. This would be kind of atonement for all the (mis)deeds which resulted in keeping a sizable population of this country perpetually poor and force their children to do hard labor, while their children go to top private schools in country and abroad.
2 June 2010 at 1:12 pm
ERR, the law has just been pased. It is not going to happen in one day. it will take at least four to five years for it to fructify.
2 June 2010 at 2:18 pm
True to the saying, one picture speaks thousand words. It is sad to see such things in our country. But then, I think such situations exist in many other countries as well.
2 June 2010 at 4:04 pm
Good photo reveals the present situation of India. We have to think about this.
2 June 2010 at 9:27 pm
India has more cell phones than toilets… the parents or guardians of these kids see more profit in ragpicking than sending them to school. Some kids might even have made this decision themselves ;)
2 June 2010 at 11:45 pm
No words to say. Every educated Indian has to contribute towards universal education, whichever way he/she can. Wish the govt comes up with some scheme/programme to provide a platform for this.
Waiting for the day when every child will go to school.
3 June 2010 at 9:13 am
mea culpa, all of u