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    The document provides an overview and summary of the short story "Lost Spring" by Anees Jung. It describes the story's focus on the difficult conditions faced by poor street children in India who are forced to work and miss out on their childhood due to socioeconomic factors. It introduces the main character Saheb-e-Alam, a rag picker, and describes his daily life scrounging through garbage to find items to sell. It notes how Saheb later gets a job at a tea stall but loses his freedom in the process. The document also lists some key causes and consequences of child labor such as poverty, lack of education, physical and emotional abuse, and perpetuating the cycle

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    The document provides an overview and summary of the short story "Lost Spring" by Anees Jung. It describes the story's focus on the difficult conditions faced by poor street children in India who are forced to work and miss out on their childhood due to socioeconomic factors. It introduces the main character Saheb-e-Alam, a rag picker, and describes his daily life scrounging through garbage to find items to sell. It notes how Saheb later gets a job at a tea stall but loses his freedom in the process. The document also lists some key causes and consequences of child labor such as poverty, lack of education, physical and emotional abuse, and perpetuating the cycle

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    Lost Spring

    Part-1
    English Investigatory Project

    By – Vansh Gupta
    Class – XI -A
    TABLE OF CONTENTS
    Objectives 01 02 Introduction

    Theme
    03 04 About The Author

    Summary 05 06 Characteristics of spring

    Causes of child labor


    07 08 Consequences of child
    labor

    09 Bibliography
    OBJECTIVE
    INTRODUCTION
    The story, “Lost Spring” describes the pitiable condition of poor children
    who have been forced to miss the joy of childhood due to the socio-
    economic condition that prevails in this man-made world. These
    children are denied the opportunity of schooling and forced into labour
    early in life. Anees Jung gives voice to eliminate child labour by
    educating the children and to enforce the laws against child labour
    strictly. The call is to end child exploitation and let the children enjoy
    the days.

    Characters: Saheb-e-Alam: A rag picker


    THEME
    ● Anees Jung through her story, "Lost Spring" deals with the deplorable
    condition of poor children street children who get forced to miss the simple
    joyful moments of childhood because of their socio-economic conditions.
    ● The author Anees Jung strives hard to eliminate child labor through her book.
    ● The writer expresses her concern over the exploitation of childhood in
    hazardous jobs like rag-picking
    ● Abject poverty and thoughtless traditions result in the loss of childhood of
    millions of children like Saheb and Mukesh by working hard to support
    themselves and their families rather than enjoying their childhood by playing
    and seeking education.
    About the Author
    ● Anees Jung is an Indian female author, journalist and columnist
    who writes for major newspapers in India and abroad. She was
    born in Rourkela and belongs to an aristocratic family in
    Hyderabad. Her father, Nawab Hoshyar Jung, who was a
    renowned scholar and poet, worked as the musahib (adviser) to
    the last Nizam (prince) of Hyderabad State. And her mother and
    brother are also well-known Urdu poets.
    ● Jung hit the headlines with the publication of ‘Unveiling India in
    1987’, primarily a travel diary focusing on interviews with women.
    She wrote many subsequent books on the same topic, talked to
    women about their everyday lives, and wrote books like ‘Night of
    the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim women in India’ (1993)
    and Seven Sisters (1994). Her book ‘Breaking the Silence (1997)
    includes conversations on women’s lives from around the world.
    Summary
    (Part I): ‘Sometimes I Find a Rupee in the Garbage’ - Saheb-e-Alam (A rag picker)
    The first part tells the writer’s impressions about the life of the poor rag pickers. The rag
    pickers have migrated from Dhaka and found a settlement in Seemapuri (India). Their
    fields and homes had been swept away by storms (Socio Political Unrest). They had come
    to the big city to find a living. They are poor. The writer watches Saheb every morning
    scrounging for “gold” in her neighbourhood. Garbage is a means of survival for the elders
    and for the children it is something wrapped in wonder. The children come across a coin
    or two from it. These people have desires and ambitions, but they do not know the way to
    achieve them. There are quite a few things that are unreachable to them, namely shoes,
    tennis and the like. Later Saheb joins a tea stall where he could earn 800 Rupees and all
    the meals. The job has taken away his freedom.
    Characteristics of spring

    Season of "rebirth",
    Farmers and agriculturalists sow their
    "rejuvenation" and new
    seeds as temperatures become
    beginnings.
    favorable for plant growth.

    Spring

    Breeding activities also


    A lot of special flowers bloom in this increase during this time, with
    season, giving colorful touch to many animals giving birth.
    nature.
    CONCLUSIONS:
    Childhood Is Like Spring Season
    Spring being the best Similarly, the childhood of
    season of a year, is full of human life is often linked to
    color, fragrance, freshness, spring, as it marks the
    renewal and growth. beginning of human life, full
    of joy, pleasure, play and
    growth.
    CONTENT
    Saheb-E-Alam
    ● Saheb is a young boy of school-going age.
    ● Before he is a rag picker and was looking for "gold" in the garbage dumps of
    the big city.
    ● Meaning of Saheb-e-Ala
    Lord of Universe: But he is a rag picker.

    Saheb came from Dhaka, Bangladesh to


    Seemapuri, Delhi, India.
    Saheb’s Hometown
    ● Around 10000 rag pickers liven structures of mud, with roofs of tin and
    tarpaulin, devoid of sewage, drainage or running water.
    ● Food is more important for survival than an identity.
    "If at the end of the day we can feed our families and go to bed without
    an aching stomach, we would rather live here than in the fields that gave us no
    grain" said some women.
    Saheb-e-Alam Working In A Tea Stall
    ● Saheb now has a regular income.
    ● He is paid 800 rupees and all his meals. Thus, food is no problem.
    ● But his face has lost the carefree look. The steel canister in his hand now
    seems a burden.
    ● He is no longer his own master.
    ● He may have to work for longer hours
    ● The helplessness of doing things at his own will makes him sad.
    Causes of child labour

    The lure of cheap labour Curse of poverty.

    Lack of educational
    Causes of child resources

    Family tradition labour

    Discrimination between boys and Social and economic


    girls backwardness
    Consequences of Child Labour

    ● Physical neglect like lack of adequate provision of food. clothing shelter


    and medical treatment.
    ● General child injuries
    ● Sexual abuse, particularly sexual exploitation of girls
    ● Physical abuse that involves corporal punishment. emotional maltreatment
    ● Emotional neglect such as deprivation of family love and affection
    ● Lack of schooling Consequences results in missing educational
    qualifications and higher skills thus perpetuating their life in poverty
    THANK YOU

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