Lost Spring | Summary| CBSE
Saheb is a rag picker, came from Dhaka, in Bangladesh. He has no memory of his name. His full name was “ Saheb-e-Alam” which means Lord of Universe. This name is ironical as he is not Lord of even his own life. He leads a life of utter poverty and misery.
The lives in Seemapuri , dirty colony on periphery of Delhi. About 10,000 rag pickers live there. The colony show no signs of development. The houses are made of mud and have roofs of tins and tarpaulin. They have no identity. Saheb works in a tea stall ; gets 800 rupees plus meals ; has lost its carefree look ; no longer master of his own.
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Mukesh’s family works in a bangle factory, lives in dusty street of Firozabad. This town is famous for its bangles. It’s center of India’s glass blowing factory. More than 20,000 children work in bangle factories of Firozabad. It’s illegal for children to work in glass furnaces with high temperature. They work in dark cells without air and light. He lives in stinking lane, choked with garbage. The houses are just hovels with crumbling walls and no windows. Mukesh’s house was half built rough hut. The roof is covered with dry grass. The author realise the two distinct world. One is the world of family, caught in a web of poverty. The other is the world of moneylenders, the middlemen and the policemen, the bureaucrats and the politicians.
The author analyse grinding poverty and traditions which condemns such children to a life of exploitation. Ironically, there is no happiness in lives of these poverty gripped children. The author metaphorically compared children with spring.
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