School: Sometimes too big a dream
Piyush and Anuj are not your average kids in the block who pack their bags with notebooks and lunchboxes and go to school everyday. They are the actual free-birds who never go to school and spending their entire day playing with their siblings in a one room apartment in Jasola Vihar. Their parents leave early morning and leave the house under the care of Piyush and Anuj. They are not alone; they are also accompanied by their elder brother Ravi who they don't quite like because “he is too bossy”.
However, they are not the only kids in the neighbourhood who don't go to school .Ramesh and Sita also stay in the second floor of the tightly packed apartment in Jasola, a floor above Piyush’s house.They also loiter around throughout the day with no elder present at the house, and wait for their parents to return at the earliest from work.
Migration, hence, is an over encompassing factor which affects not only the ones who are in pursuit for a better life but also the ones who are participating in it without any their own active consent in the process.
Ravi at first glance appears to be slightly shy, however the more time you spend with him, he begins opening up. One might think it is quite unusual for the oldest sibling to be so shy,
PPicture info-Ravi on the right, Anuj and Piyush on the left.
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But then again he himself is merely 10 years old. Ravi, Piyush and Anuj have been staying in Delhi for the last one and a half year when their father left their village in Eastern Uttar Pradesh and decided to come to Delhi to pay off a debt from a moneylender. The plan was very simple, once the debt was repaid they would return back to their village. However till now their father has only managed to pay the principal amount back but not the interest amount which was levied.
Every day is more or less an adventure for the trio in the dusty streets of Jasola and their one room apartment. However sometimes the adventures can turn out to be real tricky and dangerous. Before Diwali last year, the trio decided to go to the nearby Church where they would get a lot of chocolates and also a large space to play around. Piyush and Ravi
Picture info-Their favourite hangout spot
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