The Beggar Girl - Portrait

August 21, 2011
This little girl was begging with her mother on the streets of Jaipur, the place I visited recently.  She managed to grab some leftover glass of lassi.  My kids didn't like it one bit when I clicked a beggar's photograph.

It's really painful to see small children drowned in the drudgery of a life(style) inherited by parents and sometimes by the streets they are born on.  Seeing small children into begging is much more painful because it's not a thing of choice for them, it's just the way of life.

As a mother ad as a person, I feel sad because, it's ultimately destiny which decides on which side of the line (above or below the poverty line) any person will be born into.  It could be me too.




RESTLESS

6 comments:

BookWorm said...

mmm.. Un-Glamorous.. and probably why your kids didnt like it in the first place...! but nothing to be surprised of..and its natural too..  for thats the way..we urbanised folk think about them.. and second you on that line of yours when you say.. its not a choice for them.. 

another thought that was provoked by these two pics as well as the small writeup that you wrote was perhaps... the way we waste our food. we all should remember.. that for every grain of food that we waste, there are hundreds and thousands of people who are deprived of the same..! so let's not waste it.. and if at all, we don't want it.. we may better give it to some needy folks... 

with that thought in mind, why dont we all make a resolution that the next time we go to a restaurant, and after finishing our menu, why dont we all ask the waiter to get the remaining stuff packed so that we may give it to some one in need...?? 

RESTLESS said...

That's a good thought BookWorm.

That's what I do normally. Telling the staff to pack up the food for me. I don't think there is anything to feel shy or embarrassed about. After all it's the food you paid for. So why not pick it up and give to someone who needs it.

Even wastage at home can avoided by planning the meal properly and then packing up the leftovers for the many people who work for you.

SUB said...

true...and it's really sad...

Ketan Pandit said...

it is a painful reality..but sometimes i do also feel that these beggards dont want anythign better from life...our govt is doing a lot to get these people off the streets, but somehow they find their way back.

RESTLESS said...

that's true

RESTLESS said...

right...

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