I often feel that slum dwellers are poor but they are not weak.
The ironical name of a famous Hollywood movie, presents a picture of India, mushroomed by slums, and slum kids have been compared with dogs. Yeah, I'm talking about 'Slumdog Millionaire'. This movie shows the common thought of masses about the fateless people of slum.
Though I feel reality is something different. And to believe me, you've to go and visit slum kids. And trust me you would be caught by 'Awe', seeing the potential of those innocent kids.
Their smiling faces will tell you quietly that they, like other kids, too want to fly high and touch the limits of sky.
I suggest you to take a closer look and you'll be surprised to know that they're better than half of the kids, studying in those public schools in the city and who come from so called posh area.
If educated properly, I believe that they have the capacity to achieve heights in their life and make our nation proud.
Name anything like acting and other such things, within moments, you'll find a kid from that slum (which is considered as backward & under productive) crowd doing what you wanted them to do.
We just need to come out from our ghetto, and seek the potential out, to give India, stronger hands in coming decade and free it from its stained image of a country full of turbid slum.
This article is written by Akanksha Singh, who is pursuing engineering from Jaipur.
The ironical name of a famous Hollywood movie, presents a picture of India, mushroomed by slums, and slum kids have been compared with dogs. Yeah, I'm talking about 'Slumdog Millionaire'. This movie shows the common thought of masses about the fateless people of slum.
Though I feel reality is something different. And to believe me, you've to go and visit slum kids. And trust me you would be caught by 'Awe', seeing the potential of those innocent kids.
Their smiling faces will tell you quietly that they, like other kids, too want to fly high and touch the limits of sky.
I suggest you to take a closer look and you'll be surprised to know that they're better than half of the kids, studying in those public schools in the city and who come from so called posh area.
If educated properly, I believe that they have the capacity to achieve heights in their life and make our nation proud.
Name anything like acting and other such things, within moments, you'll find a kid from that slum (which is considered as backward & under productive) crowd doing what you wanted them to do.
We just need to come out from our ghetto, and seek the potential out, to give India, stronger hands in coming decade and free it from its stained image of a country full of turbid slum.
This article is written by Akanksha Singh, who is pursuing engineering from Jaipur.
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