The Morning Swing

As I watched Sahib walk towards the swings, he happily admitted that the gatekeeper allowed him to go inside and use the swing for a while. The swings were located in a place that seemed like a dream come true for Sahib, who had never been able to afford such luxuries before. He was wearing tennis shoes that looked strange over his discolored shirt and shorts, which someone had given to him. Sahib explained that the shoes were discarded by some rich boy who perhaps refused to wear them because of a hole in one of them. Despite this, Sahib did not mind, as he knew what it was like to walk barefoot.

As I looked at Sahib's worn-out clothes and his new tennis shoes, I realized that he had never been able to afford such luxury before. In fact, the East was known for its discarded and out-of-use items, which were often left behind by rich people who considered them useless because of a small hole. Sahib's enthusiasm about wearing these shoes made me realize how much it meant to him to have something that he had never had in his lifetime. The fact that Sahib was now able to wear such shoes, even if they were discarded, made me appreciate the value of what he had.

The Next Morning

The next morning, I saw Sahib walking towards a milk booth with a steel cannister in his hand. He pointed in the direction of a tea stall down the road and said that he worked there, earning rupees 800 per month and getting two meals a day. His face had lost its carefree look, which made me wonder if he liked his job. I asked him about his experience, but Sahib's response was not encouraging. The cannister belonged to the owner of the tea shop, who had provided it for Sahib to carry milk from the booth.

As Sahib walked towards the tea stall, I noticed that the steel cannister seemed heavier than the plastic bag he would normally carry. But what struck me more was the change in Sahib's demeanor. He no longer looked like a carefree person, but rather someone who was bound by responsibilities and obligations. Working at a tea stall meant serving customers, bringing milk from the booth, and following orders without any freedom to act according to his own will. Sahib was no longer his own master; he had become someone else's servant, and this realization made me wonder if he truly enjoyed his job.

The Price of Freedom

Sahib's story is a poignant reminder that freedom comes at a price. The rupees 800 per month that he earns may seem like a lot, but it also means that he has to surrender some of his autonomy in the process. By working at a tea stall, Sahib has lost his carefree spirit and become someone who has to follow orders without question. His new job has brought him stability and security, but it has also taken away something essential: his freedom to act according to his own will.

As I watched Sahib carry the steel cannister with a sense of resignation, I couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy for him. He had never been able to afford such luxuries before, and now that he has them, he is expected to conform to the expectations of his new role. The fact that Sahib is no longer his own master makes me realize that even small pleasures can be taken away from us when we become bound by responsibilities and obligations. The price of freedom, it seems, is something that we must always pay in order to experience its beauty.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ena very good morning dear listeners so today in this lecture we are going to do the second story of class twelth English title of the story is a lost spring so children this is basically not an individual piece of writing lost spring is actually the title of a book that was written by an is young right it's a title of a book the complete title as lost spring stories of stolen childhood so students this title is I would say not at all a straightforward one you know lost spring the title seems that the author has probably explained something about the seasons something about the spring season something about losing the spring season right so outwardly it seems that the author wants to talk about spring season but children actually the story is written about the lost childhood so the writer has compared childhood to spring season you know spring is such a season which is considered the most beautiful one the most beautiful one by most of the people so childhood is also such a period like which is counted the best period of a person's life so in this story a nice young has tried to make a clear picture of those children who are not able to enjoy the spring of their life she has talked about those children like who couldn't get or who cannot get the opportunity to in joy the golden period of their life and the golden period of their life is of course childhood about the writer if we read so a nice young was born in red gala and they she spent her childhood and adolescence in Hyderabad India right so she received some of her education in Hyderabad and some in USC both her parents were writers and she to begin her career as a writer in India right so she has been working as an editor and columnist for several newspapers in India as well as abroad and she has written several books means she has written many many books so the present story that is included in your book flamingo has also taken from a book whose title as lost spring stories of stolen childhood as I told you right so here in this story she Eliza's the grinding poverty and the traditions and customs which condemn these poor children to a life of exploitation you know what I felt after the reading of the story like a nice young has touched that part that part of our society like that section that that seems you know we all have sympathy for these children we all have sympathy for these kind of people but nobody talks about them nobody wants to write about such people nobody wants to explore their lives and this young had taken an initiative to jot down knowledge about these people their living conditions their desires their dreams right so like she has tried to touch such areas so which all the writers are not able to do so in this story she would talk about a boy whose name is Sahib right so she would talk about him she would converse she would act that she's conversing with Sahib and like gradually by the end she's able to take out the conclusion that how these people adjust themselves to such a life of rag-picking such a life of poverty such a life of starvation right so I see but like how she begins the story so she is divided the story into two equal parts two parts a first part we are going to begin its titleist sometimes I find a rupee in the garbage I hope all of you know the meaning of garbage right a collection of rubbish so garbage finding a rupee you know children money is such a thing which can change every person's attitude money rupee you would often find these words like bringing out a deep meaning out of these lines of story see sometimes I find a rupee in the garbage must be a line uttered by Sahib one of the major characters of story you know see how she begins why do you do this I ask Sahib whom I encounter every morning sponging for gold in the garbage dumps of my neighbourhood Sahib left his home long ago set amidst the green fields of Dhaka his home is not even a distant memory there were many storms that swept away the fields and homes his mother tells him that's why they left looking for gold in the big city where he lives now you know one day the narrator asked sahib that boy who was always busy in scrounging scrounging means children to hunt for something to find something of a very nominal value of a very less value right so whom I encounter she has written encounter means to meet to see right so she asked sahib like whom i encounter every morning like she always used to see Sahib scrounging for gold in the garbage scrounging means looking for or finding right finding gold in the garbage dumps so do you think that gold can be found in garbage dumps can anybody find golden like garbage I don't think so so see the writer has taken a very you know critical line you may say a line so that is satirical so she says that Sahib used to look for gold in that garbage and as I have had left his home long long ago and they were living him it is the green fields of Dhaka Huck I hope you have heard the name of the place it's in Bangladesh so Sahib whom is not even a distant memory it means a Sahib didn't even know about the location of his home nothing about that right so there were many storms there were many problems that swept away their fields on which they used to work on which they used to do agricultural works and their whom his mother sahibs mother told him so that's why the people left that place because there were many storms many natural calamities and their land and home was destroyed right so that's why the people have shifted to the big city Dhaka where the people were living now and why they have shifted hakka because they feel that people here are very rich and they often leave gold in the garbage they often leave money right in the garbage and by finding that gold by finding that money so children like Sahib and the families of children like Sahib can also like survive by Iraq picking by finding precious things and that garbage so see but then I'd refer this says and he said I have nothing else I have nothing else to do he mutters she says that what was the answer of Sahib Sahib and said that he didn't have anything else to do he doesn't have any work if we say like any profession any work anything to do looking away so he mutters mutters means to utter to produce a sound to answer that right go to school I glibly I say glib a realizing immediately how hollow that advice must sound you know what is glibly glibly means when somebody speaks in a ready flow of words especially a superficial statement a statement that doesn't make sense a statement that is artificial you may say so what was a statement given by the narrator she said go to school you know means she herself realized it immediately as she says she realized it just the next moment that she has given a wrong advice to to a boy like Sahib because see the children the people who's even basic necessities are not fulfilled like the people can never dream of going to school like how can the jot down money how can the jot down uniforms books like each and everything stationery whatever is needed for like being in a school so she immediately realized that children like Sipe can never go to school right but somehow she had given that statement go to school see there's no school in my neighborhood when they build one I go the answer from Sahib side was that because there is no school in their area and if any school is built there then he said that he would definitely go to that one right so see what the narrator for this is she says if I start a school in your area will you come so she asked that half jokingly yes he says smiling broadly you know a broad smile on Sahib say sahibs face came when Sahib heard a statement from the narrator that if she starts to school so would Sahib join that school of course you know children more than 95 percent as per I know even more than 98 percent of the school going children hate going to school nobody wants to go to school right in opposition to that if you realize if you have ever seen the people who are ragpickers if you have seen the people who are beggars who can't even afford to fulfill the basic necessities of life the people long for going to school they really wish to attend school they want to get education they want to do some job they want to involve themselves in some profession right so see what is sahibs desire because the author was just joking see see it's not easy to build a school so she was just joking but Sipe take it seriously and said that yes of course I would join that school if you build right so a few days later I saw him running up to me is your school ready you know Sahib was a kid how could he realize that building up a school is not easy as that so when Sahib saw the narrator the next a few days later so he ran up to her and asked he have you made that school is the school ready see what is the answer of the naltar it takes longer to build a school I say embarrassed at having made a promise that was not meant but promises like mine abound in every corner of this of his bleak world you know she felt embarrassed she felt ashamed when she heard that question from Sahib that have you built that school and she out of shame she answered that like it's a long long process to build a school right a bound but a bound means a lot of so but in the next movement as she added that first you felt that she felt ashamed that she made a false promise to sahib secondly in the second instance she realized that such kind of promises are always made in this bleak world right bleak means children cheerless which is colorless without colors miserable so this world is colorless for children like Sahib and she says that but promises like mine abound n means a lot of such kind of promises are made to children like Sahib in this colorless world right after months of knowing him I asked him his name Sahib a alam he announces so when the author often used to meet him and like one on one of the days she asked his name and see his name is Sahib ulam he answers Sahiba column the author was shattered on knowing the name like she all of us had done like she felt a stuck she surprised why see he doesn't know what it means mean Sahib doesn't know the name of his meaning if he knew its meaning the meaning of Sahib a Alamos Lord of the universe ruler of the world ruler of the universe right so he would have a hard time believing it it means author wants to say that his name is totally opposite to the life he is living presently right unaware of what his name represents he roams the streets with his friends an army of barefoot boys who appear like the morning birds and disappear at noon over the months I've come to recognize each of them it means the author must be meeting all of them either occasionally or daily right so what the people used to do their routine was to like get out of there like places where they must be staying at night so getting up early from that place coming out of that and start looking for the rag start looking for the money for the things which people have thrown in the garbage and they used to collect that and they disappear till noon time so those are those boys those rag pickers have been compared to birds by the author likes birds too are seen in the morning time and they disappear in noon rate next I thought this is why are not you wearing shuffles I asked one foot wears you know so author asked like why they are not wearing foot rest so my mother didn't bring them down from the shelf I answer simply he means that he was never provided with the photo base how can he wear them right even if she did he will throw them off adds another who is wearing shoes that do not match so see like they too have differences among them they live with love and happiness but they have differences as well so another boy adds to the answer he says that even if his mother brings shoes for him he will throw away those shoes right so the answer is given by that boy who was wearing both shoes that were of different color and different shape it means both shoes were not matching it was not a pair the shoes he was wearing both those shoes belong to different pairs right so when I comment on it he shuffles his feet and says nothing I want shoes so when the author commented on that so what was the answer from the boys side he says that nothing I only need shoes to veer like whatever it be says a third boy who has never owned a pair all his life you know a third one now answered all of a sudden his answer was I oh I only need shoes why because throughout his life supposes ages 10 his ages 15 right so he had never got a pair of shoes to wear in his life that's why he's saying that whatever be the condition of the shoes be it good beat bad be worst I only need a pair of shoes right see the pathetic situation the author has created by saying I won't shoes you know that condition in which one feels deprived you know deprived of the thing are deprived of such things which they have never acquired in their whole lifetime so next line is a traveling across the country I have been seen I have seen children walking barefoot in cities on village roads it's not a lack of money but a tradition to stay barefoot in one explanation right so the author gave another viewpoint that she has seen many such children who are not wearing any Footwear and why they are not wearing for twist another explanation she gives us it's not because that they have lack of money or they don't have money to purchase outfit those Footwear but it has become a custom for them it has become a tradition for them it has become a kind of habit for them right so I wonder if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty the children perpetual means the one which lasts forever permanent right so the author thinks that like this is actually she finds is only an excuse to explain away a permanent state of poverty it means they people want to show that they are poor and like they would live in this state forever they would never become rich or they would never rise up to the level of middle class even right I hope that's clear up to now it's a children in the next paragraph though this is it I remember a story a man from ODP once told him told me so the author was told a story from a man who came from the place UDP so as a young boy he would go to school past an old temple where his father was a priest he would stop briefly at the temple and pray for a pair of shoes 30 years later I visited the town in the temple which was now drowned in the air of desolation right so drown in the air desolation ground means ended right so desolation destruction desolation destruction so and what he says now see he the author says that like once she got an opportunity to listen to a story from a man who came from ODP and what was the story like as a young boy as you know he used to pass from a temple road he would go to school past an old temple right so what was his father's profession his father was a priest in that temple the boy would stop for a short while for a very less time at the temple and what does what did he I used to pray for he used to pray for a pair of shoes you know see the children of today or the children who are from well-off families who belong to good families they pray for a motorbike they pray for a car they pray for an iPhone or like they pray for the luxuries of life pray or you may say desire right so see the plight of these ragpicker see the plight of these beggars like he used to pray for a pair of shoes in front of temple like he used to pray to God that kindly provide him with a pair of shoes whatever may be the condition that would be acceptable to him see in the next line the author says 30 years later I visited us down in the temple which was now drowned in an air of desolation right so the author visited that and what was the condition in the backyard where lived the new priest now that priest was not living in that place a new one had arrived they were red and white plastic chairs it means that shows a kind of improvement right so a young boy dressed in a grey uniform wearing socks and shoes arriving panting and threw his schoolbag on a folding bed look at the boy I remember the prayer another boy had made to the goddess when he had finally got a pair of shoes let me never lose them see let me never lose them like a statement which can melt an emotional heart is that like a kind of thank-you to the God that now that he had acquired a pair of shoes and let him never lose that pair it means he's praying to God indirectly he is thanking God and praying to God that he should never lose that pair of shoes because the author is seeing a changed situation a teased situation in which plastic chairs are there in the house the boy young boy in the house of the new priest is well dressed in uniform wearing socks and shoes right so like it shows that the condition has changed but the author is still remembering of that boy who used to thank for such a pair of shoes the goddess had granted his prayer young boys like the son of the priest now who shoes but many others like the wreck because in my neighborhood remain shoeless it means the boys in the author's neighborhood were still walking barefoot were still without any photo s right so the author is trying to give a minut you know insight into the lives of people who pray for those things which we often throw away like while being in good state you know everybody like if I say that everyone listening to this lesson must be having at least 10 to 12 pairs of foot wears at least so if you have so many like if you have so many foot Aware's if you have so much variety right see the like tried to understand the plight of those children who don't have anything to wear the shoes who don't have even a single pair of foot worse right see in the next paragraph my acquaintance with the barefoot ragpickers lets me to see my booty see my booty is a place Reggie it's a name of a place and it's on the periphery of Delhi right so it's in the outskirts of Delhi yet miles away from it it means it's very far away from that metaphorically like he has given a statement that is both both contrasting and it seems similar as well so those who live there are squatters who came from Bangladesh back in 1971 right so and he is talking of squatters squatters means you know idle people the people who are not into any kind of profession the people who are free right so those who live here are squatters it means the people who are living here are idle people IDL e idle free right so sahibs family is among them Seema burry was then a wilderness wilderness you know is a place that is in lost state which is not known to anybody so it still is but it's no longer empty in structures of mud with roofs of tin and tarpaulin devoid of civic drainage or running water lift ten thousand ragpickers see that's not an empty place now how many people lived there about ten thousand people right and where they live they live in the homes built by 10 and tarpaulin in a metallic substance tarpaulin you know a black colored covered blanket type cover sheets waterproof sheets with which often you know the traders used to cover the wheat in rainy seasons or wheat in order to protect it from any kind of bad weather turbulence so there are houses there hurts I would not call them houses their huts were covered with tin and tarpaulin devoid off the void means not having right devoid of sea which they don't have any seepage facility any drainage facility means the wastewater doesn't have any way to go right so drainage or running water even they don't get running water it means whatever water they want to consume if they want to drink water if they want to take baths they have to fetch it from some other place they have to take that water from some other place right so next line is they have lived here for more than 30 years without an identity without permits but with ration cards that get their names on waters list and enable them to buy grain food is more important for survival than an identity see most of the people run after identity most of the people run after name and fame you may say they run after money right so her the author expresses a very hard faked a very true vicked what is that she says that those people were living there for more than 30 years they were not having any identity many of those were not having any ID cards right they were not having any permits to live on that land on that piece of land but they had ration card right so my ration cards were their ration cards were made so that they can vote for a particular party right and they were able to purchase some Russian they were able to purchase some goods that that are necessary for survival right so by showing that ration card food is of course more important for survival then identity the author says that obviously if one is to choose between identity and food they would choose food why because without food we can't survive on this earth right next line is if at the end of the day we can feed our families and go to bed without any King stomach we would rather live here than in the fields that gave us no grain say a group of women in tattered saris when I asked them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers wherever they find food the pitch they're tense and become transit homes children grew up in them becoming partners in survival and survival in Seema bui means her rag-picking survival in Seema pari means picking up or finding things from garbage through the ears it has acquired the proportions of a fine art garbage to them is gold gold means garbage to them is very precious thing it's their daily bread a roof over their heads even if it's a leaking roof but for a child it's even more you know they people used to a pitch tents pitch means sticking fixing their tents like next difficult word is transit transit you know it means carry one's belongings carry once necessary things wherever they used to find food right so what the author says here she says that the East children grew up in such poor conditions and why they begin to work they begin to work in order to you know contribute their parents in the process of survival and how they used to contribute their parents in survival they used to contribute by a rag-picking right so it has become a profession to them it has become you know a source of livelihood for these people it's their daily butter they say Belly bread and butter it means whatever they need for survival so that they used to acquire from this garbage how by finding little things in it you know lots and lots of things are thrown by the rich and middle-class people they consider those things useless and often such things are found by these rag pickers these people who find gold in the garbage actually they never find gold you know gold was never found by them they used to find such things which were having equal value in their eyes which were having equal values right so they used to find things which were actually as precious as gold for them right which was a kind of luxury for them see and on the next page I sometimes find a rupee as we were reading the title first I sometimes find a rupee even a 10 rupee note sighs says his eyes lightening up it means a Sahib is happy on announcing that sometimes he is able to find a rupee or even a 10 rupee note in that garbage when you can find a silver coin in the heap of garbage you don't stop scrunching it means when you find something precious in that heap of garbage right in that heap of rubbish you cannot stop scrounging scrounging means hunting finding you cannot stop scrounging for there is a hope of finding more like if you find something precious you keep on finding more because you always hope that this garbage this rubbish or like this much waste has been thrown by a rich person if I have found one precious thing I may find more of that so that's why it becomes a kind of hunger to look into that garbage next line is it seems that for children garbage has a meaning different from what it means to their parents for the children it's wrapped in wonder for the elders it's a means of survival you know for elderly people garbage was a source of livelihood for children it's a more exciting thing more exciting thing means it's wrapped in wonder they feel that they will get a gift there they will get a pack gift there it means a finding something precious was a kind of surprise for them they used to get extremely happy extremely excited on finding a precious thing and garbage right next paragraph it is one winter morning I see sigh up standing by the fenced gate of the neighborhood club watching two young men dressed in white playing tennis I like the game he hunts you know humming speaking in a slow tone like C sahibs desire was to play that game he says I like the game he really wanted to play that game he was observing that game he was standing by the fenced gate right or which boundary wall was their fenced gate of a neighborhood club right so two young men who were dressed in white dress like they were playing tennis there and it was like a dream the two children like Sahib and many others right so he was watching that and he hums he speaks slowly that he really likes that game content to watch it standing behind the fence I go inside when no one is around he admits Sahib here admits he hair confesses that when nobody is there in that ground so he often goes inside the gatekeeper lets me use the swing you know swings have become an old thing for the children of the generation so but for children like Sahib enjoying swing is a big luxury so he often used to enjoy that spring in the absence of people there and he happily admits that the gatekeeper of the place allows him to go inside and use the swing for a while right next paragraph Sahib too is wearing tennis shoes that look that look strange over his discolored shirt and shorts someone gave them to me he says in the manner of an explanation the fact that they are discarded shoes of some rich boy who perhaps refused to wear them because of a hole in one of them you know what he has tried to explain that hole doesn't bother him for one who has walked barefoot even shoes with the hole is a dream come true but the game he is watching so intently as out of his reach you know Sahib to like he was wearing tennis shoes the author noticed that Sahib was wearing tennis shoes but she knew it very well that Sahib can never afford to buy so I can never afford to purchase these tennis shoes in fact the East and its shoes are the discarded discarded means those are out of use those are left by some rich boy because of the protect that there was a hole those shoes were possessing a hole right so because of that hole some rich boy must have discarded those shoes and that's why Sahib was wearing it you know for rich those shoes are useless the rich people like they often consider that wearing a shoe with the hole would bring them shame would bring down their reputation but if you talk of you know those ragpickers sorry if you talk of those rag because so it's like a dream to them achieving such penny shoes even if those shoes have a hole in them achieving those tennis shoes was like a dream for them they crave for such shoes they are like so much desires of such kind of things because they have never got it in their lifetime right so next is next paragraph this morning Sahib is on his way to the milk mood so the morning see there is a little bit change in the story now the author has noticed Sahib walking to a milk boot right in his hand is a steel cannister I now work in a tea stall down the road he says pointing in the distance I am paid rupees 800 and all my meals does he like the job I asked his face I say has lost the carefree look the steel cannister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulder the bag was hers the cannister belongs to the man who owns the tea shop Sahib is no longer his own master you know what 2nd distr canister is a kind of tin can pink container in which P is you know taken from one place to the other now Sahib has acquired a job out of like that job he earns rupees 800 right he's here on soup is 800 per month and has food twice a day two meals a day he gets out of it and he happily answers that now he works at the tea stall that canister was not bound by Sahib rather it was owned by the owner of that tea shop and he has provided Saheb with that canister to carry to bring you may say to bring milk from that milk booth when the author encountered Sahib she asked him that do you like this job there was you know a serious look on Zipes face his face had lost that carefree look why because now he is a servant to somebody now he has started working for somebody earlier you know otherwise if we see that the job of the work of rag-picking is of course considered inferior to that of working at a tea stall status wise working at a tea stall is considered better in comparison to a rag picking right but since like in the eyes of audience in the eyes of readers Sahib has got a good opportunity good opportunity means now he has started working at a tea stall so that's why he doesn't have to go for rag picking but for Sahib he is finding it difficult not because the canister is heavier than his plastic bag but because of the fact that now he has to get up at a fixed time he has to serve at the place he has to stay there he's no longer you may say he is no longer the owner of his own will he cannot act according to his own will he cannot go her and there according to his own will he has to stay at a place he has to serve the customers with tea he has to bring milk from the booth he has to bring the other things sugar etc from the places where ever he is directed by the owner it means he's not at all free see the last line of the paragraph he says that Sahib is no longer his own master it means he is no longer the master of his life his time has been purchased by paying how much this time has been purchased by paying rupees 800 per month along with his meals right so that's why it is compared I hope part 1st is clear to all of youa very good morning dear listeners so today in this lecture we are going to do the second story of class twelth English title of the story is a lost spring so children this is basically not an individual piece of writing lost spring is actually the title of a book that was written by an is young right it's a title of a book the complete title as lost spring stories of stolen childhood so students this title is I would say not at all a straightforward one you know lost spring the title seems that the author has probably explained something about the seasons something about the spring season something about losing the spring season right so outwardly it seems that the author wants to talk about spring season but children actually the story is written about the lost childhood so the writer has compared childhood to spring season you know spring is such a season which is considered the most beautiful one the most beautiful one by most of the people so childhood is also such a period like which is counted the best period of a person's life so in this story a nice young has tried to make a clear picture of those children who are not able to enjoy the spring of their life she has talked about those children like who couldn't get or who cannot get the opportunity to in joy the golden period of their life and the golden period of their life is of course childhood about the writer if we read so a nice young was born in red gala and they she spent her childhood and adolescence in Hyderabad India right so she received some of her education in Hyderabad and some in USC both her parents were writers and she to begin her career as a writer in India right so she has been working as an editor and columnist for several newspapers in India as well as abroad and she has written several books means she has written many many books so the present story that is included in your book flamingo has also taken from a book whose title as lost spring stories of stolen childhood as I told you right so here in this story she Eliza's the grinding poverty and the traditions and customs which condemn these poor children to a life of exploitation you know what I felt after the reading of the story like a nice young has touched that part that part of our society like that section that that seems you know we all have sympathy for these children we all have sympathy for these kind of people but nobody talks about them nobody wants to write about such people nobody wants to explore their lives and this young had taken an initiative to jot down knowledge about these people their living conditions their desires their dreams right so like she has tried to touch such areas so which all the writers are not able to do so in this story she would talk about a boy whose name is Sahib right so she would talk about him she would converse she would act that she's conversing with Sahib and like gradually by the end she's able to take out the conclusion that how these people adjust themselves to such a life of rag-picking such a life of poverty such a life of starvation right so I see but like how she begins the story so she is divided the story into two equal parts two parts a first part we are going to begin its titleist sometimes I find a rupee in the garbage I hope all of you know the meaning of garbage right a collection of rubbish so garbage finding a rupee you know children money is such a thing which can change every person's attitude money rupee you would often find these words like bringing out a deep meaning out of these lines of story see sometimes I find a rupee in the garbage must be a line uttered by Sahib one of the major characters of story you know see how she begins why do you do this I ask Sahib whom I encounter every morning sponging for gold in the garbage dumps of my neighbourhood Sahib left his home long ago set amidst the green fields of Dhaka his home is not even a distant memory there were many storms that swept away the fields and homes his mother tells him that's why they left looking for gold in the big city where he lives now you know one day the narrator asked sahib that boy who was always busy in scrounging scrounging means children to hunt for something to find something of a very nominal value of a very less value right so whom I encounter she has written encounter means to meet to see right so she asked sahib like whom i encounter every morning like she always used to see Sahib scrounging for gold in the garbage scrounging means looking for or finding right finding gold in the garbage dumps so do you think that gold can be found in garbage dumps can anybody find golden like garbage I don't think so so see the writer has taken a very you know critical line you may say a line so that is satirical so she says that Sahib used to look for gold in that garbage and as I have had left his home long long ago and they were living him it is the green fields of Dhaka Huck I hope you have heard the name of the place it's in Bangladesh so Sahib whom is not even a distant memory it means a Sahib didn't even know about the location of his home nothing about that right so there were many storms there were many problems that swept away their fields on which they used to work on which they used to do agricultural works and their whom his mother sahibs mother told him so that's why the people left that place because there were many storms many natural calamities and their land and home was destroyed right so that's why the people have shifted to the big city Dhaka where the people were living now and why they have shifted hakka because they feel that people here are very rich and they often leave gold in the garbage they often leave money right in the garbage and by finding that gold by finding that money so children like Sahib and the families of children like Sahib can also like survive by Iraq picking by finding precious things and that garbage so see but then I'd refer this says and he said I have nothing else I have nothing else to do he mutters she says that what was the answer of Sahib Sahib and said that he didn't have anything else to do he doesn't have any work if we say like any profession any work anything to do looking away so he mutters mutters means to utter to produce a sound to answer that right go to school I glibly I say glib a realizing immediately how hollow that advice must sound you know what is glibly glibly means when somebody speaks in a ready flow of words especially a superficial statement a statement that doesn't make sense a statement that is artificial you may say so what was a statement given by the narrator she said go to school you know means she herself realized it immediately as she says she realized it just the next moment that she has given a wrong advice to to a boy like Sahib because see the children the people who's even basic necessities are not fulfilled like the people can never dream of going to school like how can the jot down money how can the jot down uniforms books like each and everything stationery whatever is needed for like being in a school so she immediately realized that children like Sipe can never go to school right but somehow she had given that statement go to school see there's no school in my neighborhood when they build one I go the answer from Sahib side was that because there is no school in their area and if any school is built there then he said that he would definitely go to that one right so see what the narrator for this is she says if I start a school in your area will you come so she asked that half jokingly yes he says smiling broadly you know a broad smile on Sahib say sahibs face came when Sahib heard a statement from the narrator that if she starts to school so would Sahib join that school of course you know children more than 95 percent as per I know even more than 98 percent of the school going children hate going to school nobody wants to go to school right in opposition to that if you realize if you have ever seen the people who are ragpickers if you have seen the people who are beggars who can't even afford to fulfill the basic necessities of life the people long for going to school they really wish to attend school they want to get education they want to do some job they want to involve themselves in some profession right so see what is sahibs desire because the author was just joking see see it's not easy to build a school so she was just joking but Sipe take it seriously and said that yes of course I would join that school if you build right so a few days later I saw him running up to me is your school ready you know Sahib was a kid how could he realize that building up a school is not easy as that so when Sahib saw the narrator the next a few days later so he ran up to her and asked he have you made that school is the school ready see what is the answer of the naltar it takes longer to build a school I say embarrassed at having made a promise that was not meant but promises like mine abound in every corner of this of his bleak world you know she felt embarrassed she felt ashamed when she heard that question from Sahib that have you built that school and she out of shame she answered that like it's a long long process to build a school right a bound but a bound means a lot of so but in the next movement as she added that first you felt that she felt ashamed that she made a false promise to sahib secondly in the second instance she realized that such kind of promises are always made in this bleak world right bleak means children cheerless which is colorless without colors miserable so this world is colorless for children like Sahib and she says that but promises like mine abound n means a lot of such kind of promises are made to children like Sahib in this colorless world right after months of knowing him I asked him his name Sahib a alam he announces so when the author often used to meet him and like one on one of the days she asked his name and see his name is Sahib ulam he answers Sahiba column the author was shattered on knowing the name like she all of us had done like she felt a stuck she surprised why see he doesn't know what it means mean Sahib doesn't know the name of his meaning if he knew its meaning the meaning of Sahib a Alamos Lord of the universe ruler of the world ruler of the universe right so he would have a hard time believing it it means author wants to say that his name is totally opposite to the life he is living presently right unaware of what his name represents he roams the streets with his friends an army of barefoot boys who appear like the morning birds and disappear at noon over the months I've come to recognize each of them it means the author must be meeting all of them either occasionally or daily right so what the people used to do their routine was to like get out of there like places where they must be staying at night so getting up early from that place coming out of that and start looking for the rag start looking for the money for the things which people have thrown in the garbage and they used to collect that and they disappear till noon time so those are those boys those rag pickers have been compared to birds by the author likes birds too are seen in the morning time and they disappear in noon rate next I thought this is why are not you wearing shuffles I asked one foot wears you know so author asked like why they are not wearing foot rest so my mother didn't bring them down from the shelf I answer simply he means that he was never provided with the photo base how can he wear them right even if she did he will throw them off adds another who is wearing shoes that do not match so see like they too have differences among them they live with love and happiness but they have differences as well so another boy adds to the answer he says that even if his mother brings shoes for him he will throw away those shoes right so the answer is given by that boy who was wearing both shoes that were of different color and different shape it means both shoes were not matching it was not a pair the shoes he was wearing both those shoes belong to different pairs right so when I comment on it he shuffles his feet and says nothing I want shoes so when the author commented on that so what was the answer from the boys side he says that nothing I only need shoes to veer like whatever it be says a third boy who has never owned a pair all his life you know a third one now answered all of a sudden his answer was I oh I only need shoes why because throughout his life supposes ages 10 his ages 15 right so he had never got a pair of shoes to wear in his life that's why he's saying that whatever be the condition of the shoes be it good beat bad be worst I only need a pair of shoes right see the pathetic situation the author has created by saying I won't shoes you know that condition in which one feels deprived you know deprived of the thing are deprived of such things which they have never acquired in their whole lifetime so next line is a traveling across the country I have been seen I have seen children walking barefoot in cities on village roads it's not a lack of money but a tradition to stay barefoot in one explanation right so the author gave another viewpoint that she has seen many such children who are not wearing any Footwear and why they are not wearing for twist another explanation she gives us it's not because that they have lack of money or they don't have money to purchase outfit those Footwear but it has become a custom for them it has become a tradition for them it has become a kind of habit for them right so I wonder if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty the children perpetual means the one which lasts forever permanent right so the author thinks that like this is actually she finds is only an excuse to explain away a permanent state of poverty it means they people want to show that they are poor and like they would live in this state forever they would never become rich or they would never rise up to the level of middle class even right I hope that's clear up to now it's a children in the next paragraph though this is it I remember a story a man from ODP once told him told me so the author was told a story from a man who came from the place UDP so as a young boy he would go to school past an old temple where his father was a priest he would stop briefly at the temple and pray for a pair of shoes 30 years later I visited the town in the temple which was now drowned in the air of desolation right so drown in the air desolation ground means ended right so desolation destruction desolation destruction so and what he says now see he the author says that like once she got an opportunity to listen to a story from a man who came from ODP and what was the story like as a young boy as you know he used to pass from a temple road he would go to school past an old temple right so what was his father's profession his father was a priest in that temple the boy would stop for a short while for a very less time at the temple and what does what did he I used to pray for he used to pray for a pair of shoes you know see the children of today or the children who are from well-off families who belong to good families they pray for a motorbike they pray for a car they pray for an iPhone or like they pray for the luxuries of life pray or you may say desire right so see the plight of these ragpicker see the plight of these beggars like he used to pray for a pair of shoes in front of temple like he used to pray to God that kindly provide him with a pair of shoes whatever may be the condition that would be acceptable to him see in the next line the author says 30 years later I visited us down in the temple which was now drowned in an air of desolation right so the author visited that and what was the condition in the backyard where lived the new priest now that priest was not living in that place a new one had arrived they were red and white plastic chairs it means that shows a kind of improvement right so a young boy dressed in a grey uniform wearing socks and shoes arriving panting and threw his schoolbag on a folding bed look at the boy I remember the prayer another boy had made to the goddess when he had finally got a pair of shoes let me never lose them see let me never lose them like a statement which can melt an emotional heart is that like a kind of thank-you to the God that now that he had acquired a pair of shoes and let him never lose that pair it means he's praying to God indirectly he is thanking God and praying to God that he should never lose that pair of shoes because the author is seeing a changed situation a teased situation in which plastic chairs are there in the house the boy young boy in the house of the new priest is well dressed in uniform wearing socks and shoes right so like it shows that the condition has changed but the author is still remembering of that boy who used to thank for such a pair of shoes the goddess had granted his prayer young boys like the son of the priest now who shoes but many others like the wreck because in my neighborhood remain shoeless it means the boys in the author's neighborhood were still walking barefoot were still without any photo s right so the author is trying to give a minut you know insight into the lives of people who pray for those things which we often throw away like while being in good state you know everybody like if I say that everyone listening to this lesson must be having at least 10 to 12 pairs of foot wears at least so if you have so many like if you have so many foot Aware's if you have so much variety right see the like tried to understand the plight of those children who don't have anything to wear the shoes who don't have even a single pair of foot worse right see in the next paragraph my acquaintance with the barefoot ragpickers lets me to see my booty see my booty is a place Reggie it's a name of a place and it's on the periphery of Delhi right so it's in the outskirts of Delhi yet miles away from it it means it's very far away from that metaphorically like he has given a statement that is both both contrasting and it seems similar as well so those who live there are squatters who came from Bangladesh back in 1971 right so and he is talking of squatters squatters means you know idle people the people who are not into any kind of profession the people who are free right so those who live here are squatters it means the people who are living here are idle people IDL e idle free right so sahibs family is among them Seema burry was then a wilderness wilderness you know is a place that is in lost state which is not known to anybody so it still is but it's no longer empty in structures of mud with roofs of tin and tarpaulin devoid of civic drainage or running water lift ten thousand ragpickers see that's not an empty place now how many people lived there about ten thousand people right and where they live they live in the homes built by 10 and tarpaulin in a metallic substance tarpaulin you know a black colored covered blanket type cover sheets waterproof sheets with which often you know the traders used to cover the wheat in rainy seasons or wheat in order to protect it from any kind of bad weather turbulence so there are houses there hurts I would not call them houses their huts were covered with tin and tarpaulin devoid off the void means not having right devoid of sea which they don't have any seepage facility any drainage facility means the wastewater doesn't have any way to go right so drainage or running water even they don't get running water it means whatever water they want to consume if they want to drink water if they want to take baths they have to fetch it from some other place they have to take that water from some other place right so next line is they have lived here for more than 30 years without an identity without permits but with ration cards that get their names on waters list and enable them to buy grain food is more important for survival than an identity see most of the people run after identity most of the people run after name and fame you may say they run after money right so her the author expresses a very hard faked a very true vicked what is that she says that those people were living there for more than 30 years they were not having any identity many of those were not having any ID cards right they were not having any permits to live on that land on that piece of land but they had ration card right so my ration cards were their ration cards were made so that they can vote for a particular party right and they were able to purchase some Russian they were able to purchase some goods that that are necessary for survival right so by showing that ration card food is of course more important for survival then identity the author says that obviously if one is to choose between identity and food they would choose food why because without food we can't survive on this earth right next line is if at the end of the day we can feed our families and go to bed without any King stomach we would rather live here than in the fields that gave us no grain say a group of women in tattered saris when I asked them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers wherever they find food the pitch they're tense and become transit homes children grew up in them becoming partners in survival and survival in Seema bui means her rag-picking survival in Seema pari means picking up or finding things from garbage through the ears it has acquired the proportions of a fine art garbage to them is gold gold means garbage to them is very precious thing it's their daily bread a roof over their heads even if it's a leaking roof but for a child it's even more you know they people used to a pitch tents pitch means sticking fixing their tents like next difficult word is transit transit you know it means carry one's belongings carry once necessary things wherever they used to find food right so what the author says here she says that the East children grew up in such poor conditions and why they begin to work they begin to work in order to you know contribute their parents in the process of survival and how they used to contribute their parents in survival they used to contribute by a rag-picking right so it has become a profession to them it has become you know a source of livelihood for these people it's their daily butter they say Belly bread and butter it means whatever they need for survival so that they used to acquire from this garbage how by finding little things in it you know lots and lots of things are thrown by the rich and middle-class people they consider those things useless and often such things are found by these rag pickers these people who find gold in the garbage actually they never find gold you know gold was never found by them they used to find such things which were having equal value in their eyes which were having equal values right so they used to find things which were actually as precious as gold for them right which was a kind of luxury for them see and on the next page I sometimes find a rupee as we were reading the title first I sometimes find a rupee even a 10 rupee note sighs says his eyes lightening up it means a Sahib is happy on announcing that sometimes he is able to find a rupee or even a 10 rupee note in that garbage when you can find a silver coin in the heap of garbage you don't stop scrunching it means when you find something precious in that heap of garbage right in that heap of rubbish you cannot stop scrounging scrounging means hunting finding you cannot stop scrounging for there is a hope of finding more like if you find something precious you keep on finding more because you always hope that this garbage this rubbish or like this much waste has been thrown by a rich person if I have found one precious thing I may find more of that so that's why it becomes a kind of hunger to look into that garbage next line is it seems that for children garbage has a meaning different from what it means to their parents for the children it's wrapped in wonder for the elders it's a means of survival you know for elderly people garbage was a source of livelihood for children it's a more exciting thing more exciting thing means it's wrapped in wonder they feel that they will get a gift there they will get a pack gift there it means a finding something precious was a kind of surprise for them they used to get extremely happy extremely excited on finding a precious thing and garbage right next paragraph it is one winter morning I see sigh up standing by the fenced gate of the neighborhood club watching two young men dressed in white playing tennis I like the game he hunts you know humming speaking in a slow tone like C sahibs desire was to play that game he says I like the game he really wanted to play that game he was observing that game he was standing by the fenced gate right or which boundary wall was their fenced gate of a neighborhood club right so two young men who were dressed in white dress like they were playing tennis there and it was like a dream the two children like Sahib and many others right so he was watching that and he hums he speaks slowly that he really likes that game content to watch it standing behind the fence I go inside when no one is around he admits Sahib here admits he hair confesses that when nobody is there in that ground so he often goes inside the gatekeeper lets me use the swing you know swings have become an old thing for the children of the generation so but for children like Sahib enjoying swing is a big luxury so he often used to enjoy that spring in the absence of people there and he happily admits that the gatekeeper of the place allows him to go inside and use the swing for a while right next paragraph Sahib too is wearing tennis shoes that look that look strange over his discolored shirt and shorts someone gave them to me he says in the manner of an explanation the fact that they are discarded shoes of some rich boy who perhaps refused to wear them because of a hole in one of them you know what he has tried to explain that hole doesn't bother him for one who has walked barefoot even shoes with the hole is a dream come true but the game he is watching so intently as out of his reach you know Sahib to like he was wearing tennis shoes the author noticed that Sahib was wearing tennis shoes but she knew it very well that Sahib can never afford to buy so I can never afford to purchase these tennis shoes in fact the East and its shoes are the discarded discarded means those are out of use those are left by some rich boy because of the protect that there was a hole those shoes were possessing a hole right so because of that hole some rich boy must have discarded those shoes and that's why Sahib was wearing it you know for rich those shoes are useless the rich people like they often consider that wearing a shoe with the hole would bring them shame would bring down their reputation but if you talk of you know those ragpickers sorry if you talk of those rag because so it's like a dream to them achieving such penny shoes even if those shoes have a hole in them achieving those tennis shoes was like a dream for them they crave for such shoes they are like so much desires of such kind of things because they have never got it in their lifetime right so next is next paragraph this morning Sahib is on his way to the milk mood so the morning see there is a little bit change in the story now the author has noticed Sahib walking to a milk boot right in his hand is a steel cannister I now work in a tea stall down the road he says pointing in the distance I am paid rupees 800 and all my meals does he like the job I asked his face I say has lost the carefree look the steel cannister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulder the bag was hers the cannister belongs to the man who owns the tea shop Sahib is no longer his own master you know what 2nd distr canister is a kind of tin can pink container in which P is you know taken from one place to the other now Sahib has acquired a job out of like that job he earns rupees 800 right he's here on soup is 800 per month and has food twice a day two meals a day he gets out of it and he happily answers that now he works at the tea stall that canister was not bound by Sahib rather it was owned by the owner of that tea shop and he has provided Saheb with that canister to carry to bring you may say to bring milk from that milk booth when the author encountered Sahib she asked him that do you like this job there was you know a serious look on Zipes face his face had lost that carefree look why because now he is a servant to somebody now he has started working for somebody earlier you know otherwise if we see that the job of the work of rag-picking is of course considered inferior to that of working at a tea stall status wise working at a tea stall is considered better in comparison to a rag picking right but since like in the eyes of audience in the eyes of readers Sahib has got a good opportunity good opportunity means now he has started working at a tea stall so that's why he doesn't have to go for rag picking but for Sahib he is finding it difficult not because the canister is heavier than his plastic bag but because of the fact that now he has to get up at a fixed time he has to serve at the place he has to stay there he's no longer you may say he is no longer the owner of his own will he cannot act according to his own will he cannot go her and there according to his own will he has to stay at a place he has to serve the customers with tea he has to bring milk from the booth he has to bring the other things sugar etc from the places where ever he is directed by the owner it means he's not at all free see the last line of the paragraph he says that Sahib is no longer his own master it means he is no longer the master of his life his time has been purchased by paying how much this time has been purchased by paying rupees 800 per month along with his meals right so that's why it is compared I hope part 1st is clear to all of you\n"