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LOST SPRING

(Stories of a Stolen Childhood)

                                                  –Anees Jung

 

‘SOMETIMES I FIND A RUPEE IN THE GARBAGE’

Saheb - the rag-picker

Saheb is a rag-picker who scrounges the garbage deposits to sustain his living. He and his family, refugees from Bangladesh, have come to the big city “looking for gold”. He is unable to study due to the lack of schools in his neighbourhood. The narrator jokingly makes a false promise to open a…

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