I am born and
brought up in India and have been lucky to be born in a family that provided me
everything. If you ask the general public to tell you what are the biggest
problems faced by India that hinder it's capability to be conceived as a developed nation, most of the answers
would include 'poverty' as a factor. I am writing this to share my views on how
to eradicate certain types of poverty stricken groups. Namely the 'beggars at
traffic lights'. I am writing this having no knowledge or stats about the
clockwork of the traffic light beggar community so I am very much open to
criticism and corrections. As a layman in writing, I have written what I feel
about them and what should be done.
I am using the term
clockwork because anyone who has seen the traffic light beggars day in and day
out can tell you on the basis of common sense that they have an organized
system behind them which dictates the lives of these beggars. We all have seen
the movie slumdog millionaire, in which we see little children taken from the
slum area's of Mumbai and forced into a life of begging on the streets. That
movie even sheds light on the harsh reality that children are mutilated (
single eye amputation was shown in the movie, but that's only if they are lucky
) so as to increase the grief in the hearts of the daily commuters. The
scenario is unimaginable and inhuman. I have personally scene half naked
children with a burnt eye being handed a cup and told to go ask for money. The
pain I feel at the lose of life and the suffering one has to go through. What
does a child has anything to do with the issue imposed on him. He can barely
speak and they want him to go to cars with a steel cup and beg for money he doesn't
even get to use.
