Surprise !!! Headline of The Economic Times read as "Mumbai beggars make Rs 180 cr a year". It explained ...
The other day, I was watching the movie "Traffic Signal" and that gave more inside light on this. Actually, there are so called "Bhai"s (Like, Munna Bhai) who get more of those earning and they force the beggars just to make both ends meet. Lot of begging is “commercial” , run by gangs who use children to beg. There are many categories of beggars. Most of them are children, some of whom are used by gangs and coerced into begging. This is commercial begging and many a time, it is the family of the child that gets him into this.
These beggars have their own life there; enjoying every bit as we do being here. They have friends, they have family, they respect their job there, they have feeling within themselves and finally, they have a strong bonding to their lives they are living.
I am sure, nobody try to go there of their own. But, circumstances force them to be in that situation. Sometimes, some of them try to come out of that life; to enjoy normal life and there come, again these "Bhai"s who do not allow them to go out as it might create problem for their survival further. You might have heard lots of poor people were killed by "Bhai"s and nobody cares for the reason. Many a times, the reason would be very simple, that they somehow stopped helping them in their business from the low-end. Even though they want to come out from their scrambled lives, they can not now. I keep on asking the question ... "Can they ever come back !!!"
I see other category in case of people who always desire to go abroad mainly for money-making. They decide they would be staying abroad for about 5 years in which time they would have earned money to settle down in India.
Time passes, eating burgers at McDonald's and pizzas and discos and watching the foreign exchange rate and getting happy whenever the Rupee value went down. They grow family there and finally, when the time is to back to India, children deny. They had started their lives there; got adjusted to that environment; thereby not at all interested to come back to India. Again the same question floats in my mind ... "Can they ever come back !!!".
Both of them have different reasons to get into that situation, have different bonding with their lives, but when it comes to back to normal place/life, the same question comes up and I am still looking for the answer to the question .... "Can They Ever Come Back ?"...
MUMBAI: They are everywhere in this metropolis: at traffic signals, peering into taxi windows, bedraggled, haggard and breaking into a sudden smile when a few coins are dropped into their palms. And it is these coins, given perhaps out of exasperation or a momentary flash of pity that add up to a staggering Rs 180 crore a year, which is the figure the government estimates that the six lakh beggars here earn every year.
The other day, I was watching the movie "Traffic Signal" and that gave more inside light on this. Actually, there are so called "Bhai"s (Like, Munna Bhai) who get more of those earning and they force the beggars just to make both ends meet. Lot of begging is “commercial” , run by gangs who use children to beg. There are many categories of beggars. Most of them are children, some of whom are used by gangs and coerced into begging. This is commercial begging and many a time, it is the family of the child that gets him into this.
These beggars have their own life there; enjoying every bit as we do being here. They have friends, they have family, they respect their job there, they have feeling within themselves and finally, they have a strong bonding to their lives they are living.
I am sure, nobody try to go there of their own. But, circumstances force them to be in that situation. Sometimes, some of them try to come out of that life; to enjoy normal life and there come, again these "Bhai"s who do not allow them to go out as it might create problem for their survival further. You might have heard lots of poor people were killed by "Bhai"s and nobody cares for the reason. Many a times, the reason would be very simple, that they somehow stopped helping them in their business from the low-end. Even though they want to come out from their scrambled lives, they can not now. I keep on asking the question ... "Can they ever come back !!!"
I see other category in case of people who always desire to go abroad mainly for money-making. They decide they would be staying abroad for about 5 years in which time they would have earned money to settle down in India.
Time passes, eating burgers at McDonald's and pizzas and discos and watching the foreign exchange rate and getting happy whenever the Rupee value went down. They grow family there and finally, when the time is to back to India, children deny. They had started their lives there; got adjusted to that environment; thereby not at all interested to come back to India. Again the same question floats in my mind ... "Can they ever come back !!!".
Both of them have different reasons to get into that situation, have different bonding with their lives, but when it comes to back to normal place/life, the same question comes up and I am still looking for the answer to the question .... "Can They Ever Come Back ?"...
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