Question

for people like saheb-e-alam and mukesh life is a vicious circle of sulm, poverty and colouress dreams. elucidate with reference to hte lesson"the lost spring"

Answer 1

The two children we come across in the story, Saheb and Mukesh, have not only lost the spring of their youth but also any hope of recovering from this loss. They are sucked into the vortex of poverty from which one can hardly ever come out. These victims of child labour are either forced by their parents or by circumstances to work rather than pursue their education. The story is an exposition on the economic inequalities in Indian society which condemns thousands of people to a life of abject poverty, a vicious cycle from which they cannot extricate themselves. Not only are these people born into their penurious state but forced to continue in that state because of the opportunities denied to them. They have been engaged in this trade for generations, working under inhuman conditions with no access to even the basic amenities of life. They are socially stigmatised for their poverty and further exploited by the middlemen. the policemen and the politicians who want to ensure that they are denied a future. They have been rendered incapable of even dreaming for a better future. The title 'lost spring' indicates the loss of opportunities that never came their way.