So, today I went to college as usual and we had some presentations in the subject Effective Communication Skills and seriously only one was good, the rest was all boring. One girl was even reading out things from her presentation papers! Also, her slides were full of text and we got bored of reading so many of them that i took out my cell phone and started texting my friend about what we had to do in the evening and believe it or not one of the presentations was on Cell Phones and she mentioned about using it during lectures. So, i started laughing.
During break we were all taking pictures of each other and having a jolly time. There is this one guy in class who is really irritating and i try to avoid him as much as i can coz he keeps sticking to me wherever i go. In fact he's even in a team with me in a fest so i can't get rid of him even if i want to.
Then after the day got over the whole class was in a really excited mood because on Monday most of them are going to Kerala. I'm not since I had some issues at home. I was hugging my friends and giving them all wishes for the trip and saying "I'll miss you". In fact by the end of it i felt that i should have asked my mom to try to send me. It's okay. Next year i'll go.
On my way back i was in the train and an empty one since it was Saturday and there weren't much people trying to juggle the space in the compartment. There was a girl sitting opposite me (rather should i say woman? she was in her early twenties). She was talking to someone that she wanted to shoot at their location for a coming event. I wanted to ask her what did she work as but then asking random people on the train what they work as just because you eavesdropped on them doesn't sound appropriate.
As i sat doing nothing in the train because i was just too tired to do anything as a matter of fact, i heard a sound in the train. A kind of beating of the drums. I turn around and find this woman with a baby attached to her and another 3 or probably 4 year old child. She started playing the instrument and the kid came to us and did some tricks with a ring. When he saw that he was not going to get any money from us he went to his mother. I myself wanted to give him but my conscience said that it won't go to him, it will go to his mother. The kid is just a puppet to get money.
I thought i'd get up and tell the mother that she's doing wrong by making the kid work like that and that if i tell on her then she could face charges of Child Labour. But when i thought completely of my plan the next station came and she got off there.
I wonder how many kids there are in India who are made to work by their parents? They get no education, no proper food, no life in fact. I remember a few days ago i'd seen a girl around 5 years, carrying 2 huge pots of water. I felt sad and i asked her if i could help her carry it? She shyly said that she'd do it herself. There again comes child labour where she was made to carry such heavy water pots.
It's really sad to see these things and that the government isn't doing anything to change it. i wish our government took some more initiative towards getting more children on track and to educate them so that tomorrow the youth that will make the country will make the country proud.
