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- 1. THE RAIN MAN --Abhishek Singh
- 2. ABOUT THE AUTHOR2 ANEES JUNG ANEES JUNG IS AN INDIAN FEMALE AUTHOR, JOURNALIST AND COLUMNIST WHO WRITES FOR MAJOR NEWSPAPERS IN INDIA AND ABROAD. SHE WAS BORN IN ROURKELA AND BELONGS TO AN ARISTOCRATIC FAMILY IN HYDERABAD. HER FATHER, NAWAB HOSHYAR JUNG, WHO WAS A RENOWNED SCHOLAR AND POET, WORKED AS THE MUSAHIB (ADVISER) TO THE LAST NIZAM (PRINCE) OF HYDERABAD STATE. AND HER MOTHER AND BROTHER ARE ALSO WELL-KNOWN URDU POETS. JUNG HIT THE HEADLINES WITH THE PUBLICATION OF ‘UNVEILING INDIA IN 1987’, WHICH IS PRIMARILY A TRAVEL DIARY THAT FOCUSES ON INTERVIEWS WITH WOMEN. SHE WENT ON WRITE MANY SUBSEQUENT BOOKS ON THE SAME TOPIC, AND TALKED TO WOMEN ABOUT THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES, AND WROTE BOOKS LIKE ‘NIGHT OF THE NEW MOON: ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSLIM WOMEN IN INDIA’ (1993) AND SEVEN SISTERS (1994). HER BOOK ‘BREAKING THE SILENCE (1997) INCLUDES CONVERSATIONS ON WOMEN’S LIVES FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
- 3. 3 This chapteris divided into two parts. The first part describes the plight of the poor rag pickers of FIROXAVThe Second part describes the miserable conditions of the bangle-makers of Firozabad. First hand experience with poverty and traditions prevailing in some parts of India. The Title: Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood The story, “Lost Spring” describes the pitiable condition of poor children INTRODUCTION
- 4. The storybegins with an interaction with Mukesh Mukesh insists on being a Motor Mechanic So Anees (Author) asks him if he knows anything about cars Mukesh replies no but he wants to learn to drive a car the author feels that his dream is like a Mirage The interaction engages readers question arises in the minds of readers ‘why she finds the dream of Mukesh as a Mirage?’
- 5. Why theauthor felt so is because: every second family engaged in the business of bangle making Firozabad - the centre of India's glass blowing industry generations after generations have been involved in this business SDGHSFSDGlight In such conditions Mukesh’s dream to be a motor mechanic is mirage for author. WHY THE DREAM IS A MIRAGE?
- 6. Mukesh volunteersto take the author home as his house is being rebuilt walk down stinking lanes choked with garbage houses are small and dirty constructions with wobbly doors with no windows families of humans and animals coexist in a primitive state they enter a half built Shack one part of which is attached with dead grass Here the author depicts a woman’s plight in a bangle makers’ family a frail young woman is cooking the evening meal for the whole family she is the wife of Mukesh’s elder brother not much older in years but she has a respect of a bahu she veils her face when Mukesh’s father enters AUTHOR’S VISIT TO MUKESH'S HOUSE
- 7. The AuthorContemplates over the hard work of Mukesh’s Father Mukesh’s father has toiled hard all his life first as a tailor and then as a bangle maker still unable to renovate his house or send his two sons to school managed to teach them art of bangle making Mukesh’s grandmother has seen her husband go blind with the dust from polishing the glass bangles Grandmother believes in destiny says ‘can a god given lineage ever be broken’ HARD WORK OF MUKESH'S FATHER
- 8. In darkhutments sit boys and girls their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside often end up losing their eyesight a young girl Savita in a drab pink dress sitting beside an elderly women The girl’s hands move like a machine The author wonders if she understands the sanctity of the bangles for Indian women the sad irony will suddenly down upon her the old lady has not enjoyed even one full meal in her entire lifetime one wonders if Mukesh’s father has achieved what many have failed to achieve he has a roof over on his head. YOUNG BOYS AND GIRLS IN FIROZABAD
- 9. nothing haschanged over the years years of hardship have killed all hopes and dreams the author asks a group of young men to organize themselves in a Cooperative Learns the horrific truth if they get organized they are taken to jail and are beaten up there is no leader among them the author finds two distinct worlds in Firozabad one is the exploited family caught in a vertex of poverty and the stigma of the caste in which they were born TWO DISTINCT WORLDS IN FIROZABAD
- 10. the authoris filled with joy when she finds that Mukesh thinks differently the boy is filled with hope his dreams of being a Motor Mechanic is still alive in his eyes he is willing to dare Anees asks Mukesh if he also dreams of flying a plane Mukesh replies in the negative he is content to dream of cars as few planes fly over Firozabad. MUKESH IS FILLED WITH HOPE
- 11. looms likea mirage - seems that it will be true in the future but actually it will not be so amidst – in the middle of glass-blowing industry - industry related to making glass furnaces - a closed room or container where heat is produced welding - the process of joining metal or glass pieces by heating them Slog – work hard Beam – shine brightly Stinking – bad smell Hovels – slums Crumbling – falling down Wobbly – unsteady Coexisting - present at the same time and place Primeval – prehistoric Shack – a roughly built hut Thatched – covered with dry grass Sizzling - make a hissing sound when frying or cooking DIFFICULT WORDS AND PHRASES
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