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Lost Spring (Anee Jung)

CBSE · Class 12 · English

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Think as you read

1What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come from?Show solution
Saheb is scrounging in the garbage dumps for things of value—sometimes even a rupee or a ten-rupee note. He is in Seemapuri on the outskirts of Delhi, and he has come from Dhaka in Bangladesh, where storms destroyed his family’s fields and homes.

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2What explanations does the author offer for the children not wearing footwear?Show solution
The author says that children go barefoot because of poverty and also because of custom/tradition. Some have never owned a pair of shoes, some mothers do not bring them down from the shelf, and some children throw them off even when they get them. The author also feels that the excuse of tradition may hide a perpetual state of poverty.

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3Is Saheb happy working at the tea-stall? Explain.Show solution
Saheb is not happy working at the tea stall. Earlier he carried his own plastic bag, but now he carries a steel canister that belongs to the tea-shop owner. The narrator says his carefree look has gone, and the canister seems heavier because he is no longer free: “Saheb is no longer his own master.”

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1What makes the city of Firozabad famous?Show solution
The text says that Firozabad is famous for its bangles. It is described as the centre of India’s glass-blowing industry, where families have spent generations making bangles.

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2Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.Show solution
The chapter says children work in glass furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light. It also says the dust from polishing glass can make workers go blind, and many lose their eyesight before adulthood. These are the main hazards mentioned.

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3How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?Show solution
Mukesh is restless and hopeful. He says, “I will be a motor mechanic,” and wants to learn to drive a car and go to a garage. Unlike his family, who believe it is their karam or destiny to make bangles, Mukesh wants to break away from the family’s inherited occupation and be his own master.

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Understanding the text

1What could be some of the reasons for the migration of people from villages to cities?Show solution
The chapter shows that people leave villages when fields are destroyed by storms, when there is no grain, and when they need food and survival. Cities attract them because they hope to find some means of living, even if life there is hard.

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2Would you agree that promises made to poor children are rarely kept? Why do you think this happens in the incidents narrated in the text?Show solution
Yes, the promises are rarely kept. The narrator promises Saheb a school, but later feels embarrassed because building a school takes time and the promise was not serious. Such promises happen because poor children are often given easy assurances by adults who do not act on them; the children then live in a world where promises are hollow and cannot change their condition.

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3What forces conspire to keep the workers in the bangle industry of Firozabad in poverty?Show solution
The workers are trapped by a vicious circle: poverty, the stigma of caste, and the control of sahukars, middlemen, policemen, bureaucrats and politicians. They are exploited, fear the police, and have no leader or cooperation to help them break free. The system keeps them tied to bangle-making and poverty.

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Talking about the text

1How, in your opinion, can Mukesh realise his dream?Show solution
Mukesh can realise his dream if he gets education, skill training, and a chance to work in a garage as he plans. He must be allowed to escape the pressure of inherited occupation, and society should support him so that he can become a motor mechanic and remain his own master.

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2Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.Show solution
The chapter mentions that workers in the glass bangle industry labour in high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light, and are exposed to glass dust that damages their eyes. Many lose their eyesight before adulthood.

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3Why should child labour be eliminated and how?Show solution
Child labour should be eliminated because it deprives children of schooling, health and a normal childhood and keeps them trapped in exploitation. It can be stopped by sending children to school, enforcing laws strictly, and creating social awareness so that families and society do not accept exploitation as normal.

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Thinking about language

1Saheb-e-Alam which means the lord of the universe is directly in contrast to what Saheb is in reality.Show solution
The phrase creates a strong ironic contrast between the meaning of Saheb-e-Alam—“lord of the universe”—and Saheb’s real condition as a poor barefoot ragpicker. The device is irony/contrast.

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2Drowned in an air of desolation.
3Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically.
4For the children it is wrapped in wonder; for the elders it is a means of survival.
5As her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine, I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the bangles she helps make.
6She still has bangles on her wrist, but not light in her eyes.
7Few airplanes fly over Firozabad.
8Web of poverty.
9Scrounging for gold.
10And survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art.
11The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulders.

Things to do

1The beauty of the glass bangles of Firozabad contrasts with the misery of people who produce them.
2Observation of the paradoxes in the society we live in.
3Note-making and reporting.

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