slide show on the lesson lost spring

2. 1.Anees Jung is
an Indian woman author,
journalist and a columnist for
major newspapers in India and
abroad, whose most noted
work, Unveiling India(1987) was
a detailed chronicle of the lives of
women in India.

4. Anees Jung's Lost Spring: Stories of
stolen childhood (2005) focuses on
children from deprived backgrounds, and
includes the story of Idrees, a child who is
kidnapped and forced to work in the
carpet industry in Mirzapur.
Others are maltreated by alcoholic fathers
or married off early or sexually
abused, though some find refuge in
schools set up by well-meaning NGOs.
A section of this book is part of the
English curriculum in many Indian schools.

7. Now,
In this chapter, Anees Jung expresses
her concern over the exploitation of
children in hazardous jobs like bangle
making and rag - picking. Grinding
poverty and thoughtless traditions
result in the loss of childhood
innocence, education and play. The
result is back breaking hard work,
dismal working conditions and
acceptance of poverty and exploitation
as destiny. There is an absolute need to
provide their poverty - stricken people,
particularly children, a life of dignity
and opportunities to dream and do.

12. ----The life of Mukesh at
Firozabad was no better.
Mukesh lived with his elder
brother who was a bangle
maker.
--He wanted to be a driver and a
motor-mechanic, not at all eager
to continue bangle making. But
the people thought that it was
their karam or the result of their
karma in the previous birth that
they were born into the caste of
bangle-makers.

19. “The idea behind the theme is to create awareness about child
labor and what ordinary people can do to abolish it. We want
people to know that employing children is a punishable
offence. We can start by stopping our neighbor or even
ourselves from employing children. We can start by finding the
child a school,” says Barry O’Brien, the convener of the annual
awards. Given the ambiguity in various laws governing child
rights and welfare, the RTE is till now mostly on paper. West
Bengal hasn’t even finalized the rules governing the
implementation of RTE, which has been done in states like
Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan.