2. Lost Spring {Answer the following question}

 

2. Lost Spring

                                      -Anees Jung

Answer the following question

Think As You Read

1.  What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumbs? Where is he and where has he come from?

Ans:- Saheb is looking for gold in the garbage dumbs. He lives at Seemapuri in Delhi. He has come from Dhaka Bangladesh.

2.  What explanations does the author offer for the children not wearing footwear?

Ans:- Author explains, It is not lack of money. It is tradition to stay barefoot, but this was an excuse to hide perpetual state of poverty.

3. Is Saheb happy working at the tea stall? Explain.

Ans:- No, Saheb is not happy working at the tea-stall because he has lost his freedom. Saheb is no longer his own master.

4.  What makes the city of Firozabad famous?

Ans:- The city of Firozabad is famous for its bangles. It is

the centre of  India glass blowing industry. Here are families who have spent generation working around furnaces, welding glass, and making bangles for all the women of the country.

5.  Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.

Ans:- There are some hazards of working in the glass bangles industry as under-

(i)They work in dingy cell

(ii)They work in high temperature

(iii)There is no air and light

(iv)There are eye more adjusted in dingy cell than the light outside.

                  Due to working in such hazardious condition they often loose their eyesight before becoming adults.

6.  How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?

Ans:- Mukesh attitude is different from his family because his family thinks that working in the glass bangles industry is their fate . His family belive in luck or destiny . They think that working in the glass bangle industry has written in their fate. Mukesh grandmother says that no body can change their fate. She impiles- “Can a God given lineage ever be broken”

                   But on the other hand Mukesh thinks differently . He does belive in luck or destiny. He wants to change the profession of his family because he does not want to carry  the old business of his parents.

Short and extra question

1. Who is Mukesh? What is his dream /ambition?

Ans:- Mukesh is a boy of a school going age. He belongs to a bangles maker family of Firozabad. His dream is to be a a motor mechanic.

2. Who is Savita?

Ans:- Savita is a young girl. She is sitting alongside an elderly woman and soldering the piece of glass. Hrr hands move mechanically like a thong of a machine. She is helping in making bangles but she does not know Sanctity of bangles. 

3. How do you know no Sahab wants to go to school? 

Ans:- when the author asks him about going to school he replied that there is no any school in his neighborhood. He says when the build one I will go. After that the author says if "I start a school , will you come? Saheb replied yes, These all represent that he wants to go to school.

4. What does Saheb do to earn some money?

Ans:- Saheb is a ragpicker. He has left his house a long ago. He lives in the author neighborhood in Seemapuri. He wants to earn some money as well as go to a school but he is not able to  deserve it all therefore in order to earn some money he works at a tea stall where he finds 800 rupees and all day meals. 

5. Describe the survival is Seemapuri.

Ans:- Seemapuri ia a palace on the the periphery of Delhi. It is some miles away from Delhi metaphorically. Once a time it was a wilderness place. It still is but no longer empty. A large number of ragpicker live here now. The people those who live here are squatter. They have come from Dhaka Bangladesh in 1971. Seemapuri was then a wilderness but it has changed with the passage of time. 

             The people live in structure of mud with roofs of tin and tarpaulin. They live in a miserable condition. They are in filthy state. There are drainage or running water in it. They live without identity. They said that food is more important than identity for survival. 

6. Is Sahab happy working at the tea stall ? Explain.

Ans:- Sahab is a ragpicker. One day he meets the author on his way to the milk booth. There is a steel canister in his hand. When the author asks him about the Steel canister she says painting the distance that he works in a tea stall down the road now. He says that he is paid 800 rupees and all his meals.

         The author asks - Does he like the job ? The author says that I see his face has lost the the carefree look now. Saheb is no longer his own master he has lost his freedom. The bag ragpicker was his but the Steel canister belongs to the man who is the master of tea shop.