There were many tiny tea shops in front of the institute, where I studied. Those shops didn’t have any concrete building, was just running under temporary cloth roof. One among them was owned by a couple, who had two kids, ages might be vary from 6-8. Usually we used to step into the shops in a break/whenever and also used to have small chat/play with those kids.
But that Sunday morning was different to me. I kept on watching those kids playing, running across. Parents were trying to control them, so that they don’t create any nuisance to the customers. But they were in full joyful mood, reluctant in listening to their parents.
I asked their mother, ‘Why don’t you place them in a school. Don’t you want to educate them?’
She responded very quickly, ‘Which parent don’t want to give education to their kids? We also want. We also wish to see them as like you all guys. But the fact is that we are not capable of. Whatever small profit we gain from this shop, it’s not even sufficient for our daily food. How could we think about their education?’.
I asked then, ‘What about their future?’
‘First let me get away from the worry of their today’s hunger. You are talking about the future. I don’t know the answer for your question’, continued serving tea for other customers.
This kind of scene is very common in our country, which stands tall in world population. While some portion of people leading comfort living, other portion is in height of deprived form. Why this disparity? What’s the fact hidden in a way, our living has been designed?
Keeping the grown-up people aside, why kids to suffer? Provided an opportunity, we were born in an affluent family, were given good education, attained social status, having fun and leading a worry-free life. Are we really overwhelmed with good deeds even before our birth? What about the children, who were born in the roadside? Whose fault is this? Who is to be blamed? How an almighty chooses a kid for so-so family or say, society? Number of un-answered questions is revolving. A big mystery!
Are really rulers worry about? Or at least think about? They are convinced that their job is over after announcing a periodic plan to micro-population(how far it reaches the needy people, that’s another sad story). To hell with those selfish, shameless creatures.
My concern here is that why can’t government adopt the underprivileged kids segment under the defined age group from the entire nation to provide food, cloth, shelter and education and groom for future India. In front of the expenses, government make for sports, defense, and security etc., the cost needed for this holy effort is defensible. After all, it’s for making a human race with humanity.
