LOST SPRING - BLOG 3

          LOST SPRING    

Good morning gentlemen. We have completed the two parts of the lesson Lost Spring.Today we will discuss some short answer questions.

SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

Q.1:- What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come from?
A.1:- Saheb is a rag picker and he scrounges for 'gold' in the garbage. Gold here can mean the yellow metal as well as anything valuable like used clothes, shoes, bits of metal, plastic scrap, stray coins and currency notes. He belongs to Bangladeshi refugee family which migrated to Delhi from Dhaka.

Q.2:-What makes the city Of Firozabad famous?
A.2:- The city of Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh is famous for its bangles. It is the centre of India's glass blowing industry where families have spent generations working around furnaces, welding glass, making bangles to adorn the wrists of women.

Q.3:- How is Saheb's name full of irony?
A.3:- Saheb's full name is Saheb-e-Alam meaning 'Lord of the Universe'. But Saheb is poverty stricken, barefoot, homeless rag picker who scrounges the garbage dumps of Delhi to take out a livelihood. His name is in total contrast to his very existence and is thus deeply ironical.

Q.4:- Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.
A.4:- The glass bangle industry in Firozabad is a disorganized sector with neither proper infrastructure nor basic amenities. These are ill-lit and poorly ventilated; glass-blowing furnaces have dingy hovels with high temperatures where children and adults work in unhygienic conditions, without protection to eyes and not proper sitting postures makes them old early.

Q.5:- What forces conspire to keep the workers of Firozabad in poverty?
A.5:- There are lots of forces that conspire to keep the workers in the Bangle making industry. They are lack of education and awareness, stigma of being born in the caste of Bangle makers, vicious circle between the sahukars, middlemen, politicians and fear of being beaten and dragged to jail makes the problem more worse.

Q.6:- How in your opinion can Mukesh realize his dream?
A.6:- Mukesh in my opinion has already taken the first step to make his dream come true by daring to think of a different life. He can definitely realize his dream if he breaks an age-old belief by raising his voice against child labor and if he is determined to come out of this vicious circle of the corrupt forces he can certainly realize his dream to be a motor mechanic.

                                                    EXTRA QUESTIONS  (FOR PRACTICE)

Question 7. Mention the circumstances which force the bangle makers to live a life of the primeval state in Firozabad?

Question 8. Describe the two types of the world mentioned by Anees Jung in the “lost spring”.

Question 9. Discuss how child labor is a potential threat to life on the basis of your reading of the lesson?