Just like any other day, Chottu as usual woke up early in the morning and went to his primary school, He had plans to play with Reshma after the school is over. They had a small corner in Reshma’s hut as their own, private little home. But on that day of March 5th 2010 something [...]
1st June is marked as the International Children’s Day. This day is all over the world is celebrated and observed to protect the fundamental rights of every children of this universe. Childhood is perhaps the only time in life when one smiles and plays in the midst of extreme poverty and misfortune. An age when [...]
An almost eight million square feet area behind the great old Ghalib Bar… there sited a modest playground along in the midst of an old huge Victorian edifice and a few numbers of cluttered slum houses. Now all those are just history. That eight million square feet area has been scattered into concrete fragments… now, [...]
On one lazy winter afternoon, in the light of the setting Sun, I came across a very old mansion surrounded by a slum on the bank of river Ganga. The old house, now almost dilapidated, standing tall in the middle of a ground with its all glory faded today. It appeared as a very old [...]
Anjum, Munna, Pintu, Hassan, Bimla, Kartik, Tamu… some rarely see their parents…some live with them, these children don’t share the same roof…but interestingly they share one common thread intimately related to their life … The River Ganga. On either side of the river, children living by the ghats try to fill their life with some [...]
