My InTeRViEW WiTh The SAViOR

Visakhapatnam: Jan-2007

“I need to take care of my old mother, how can I study when I have to earn money to run the house? “

This is the question that was shot furiously or rather helplessly towards me when I asked Raju about his ambitions regarding his education, clearly expressing his strong desire to study, which were amputated by his current situation like a flower that were plucked even before it blossomed, halting the inflorescence, hence smouldering by his situation responsible for not enabling him to pursue his desires. Indeed The savior of his family.

It was a regular evening in Visakhapatnam and I happened to visit an Irani tea stall near my home where I met Raju, who descended from his town Machilipatnam along with his brother to Visakhapatnam in search of work. Raju was around 14 when his destiny fled him from his home to the city of destiny. He now works as a Tea server in this Irani Teashop serving hot tea cups to the costumers and washing them after being used. Raju works from dusk till dawn, from 6 in the morning to 7 in the evening. He then sleeps in the shop itself and wakes up the next day to get back in to his routine duty. Raju is an example of the devilish practice that prevails in India and most parts of the world, The Child labour that prevails in every look and corner of the country.

Child labour, or child labour, refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries (courtesy: Wikipedia.org)

Child labour and improvisation of labouring children is indeed insane but the question that arises here and which I would like to point out is that ” why would any kid in this world, be it rich or poor, would want to indulge himself in to activities which, demands extreme physical strain working from dusk till dawn, subjects them to weathering to all types of seasons from humid summers to chilly winters , subjects them to all kinds of stress, getting beaten here and then and being forced in to dirty waters and also importantly preventing them rather depriving them from enjoying the best part of human cycle i.e. the childhood.

The answer is known to all, a crystal clear NO.

Well even the street children or the so called child labours wouldn’t want to do what they are doing but are unfortunately made to. Not by their employers but their circumstances. Their circumstances make them choose this sort of hard life. A hard life in which there is nothing else but pain suffering and regret. For the mistakes and wrong decisions made by their parents or due to the bad fate given by god, these children are forced to chose this sort of life , which no one would never even think of in dreams.
Childhood is the era in which every individual enjoys to the maximum limits. The fun filled days where every individuals gets a chance to experience the nascent joys that springs from their experiences with nature, the fun filled days where every individual experiences a huge amount of love care and attention from their parents friends and loved ones, are the essence of childhood era. Indeed a common wish to god from every individual is to retrieve them back their childhood.

But, for these child labours, Childhood is one phase of life which they would never want to retrieve back and indeed regret for what they undergo. The sole desire to survive in this world is what drives these children in to working at the age of studying or having a good time.

So what could be the possible solution for solving their problems? A simple dabbing incomplete survey and then chucking the children out of work isn’t going to solve all the problems. Thanks to the child labour rights personnel who hurriedly bail the child out of the job and file a case on the employer. These things would only add to the woes of these children and do little to solve them permanently. They would remain jobless for some time and again get in to another job or would remain jobless for the rest of the time and then divert themselves in to anti social activities, after all it is the matter of hunger, survival and family.

One must be sure that before cutting ones form of income, another should be shown to them.

The permanent solution is what is to be desired and it lies with the roots. The root of the problem is at the places from where they heir.

According to my survey, child labours are of three main varieties.

Firstly, the child may be an orphan. If so he should be properly counselled regarding the dangers of what he is getting himself in to and then explain him the benefits of going to a hostel and getting himself educated. This can be done by anyone amongst us. It doesn’t take much time have a simple chat with these kids where ever you find them. He may not listen to you in the first instance but on a longer note you may surely bring a change to his lives.

Secondly, most child labours are run away from homes. The same as the above process applies to these but also effort should be made to send them back home. Also importantly, further fleeing of children should be checked. This can be done by putting a check at the root, the villages from where most children flee. As in the above post, I mentioned about bablu yadav, who fleed from bihar, hence many bablu yadavs flee everyday and this should be checked and it can only be done by counselling repeatedly the importance of education and about the stress they would be undergoing had they ran away from home listening to some negative elements and running away.

Thirdly, some Child labours are responsibility acceptors. Like Raju, many children indulge themselves in to works so they can run their family. Efforts should be made by government and society for making education available to these children along with safe work and also a source of income should be made available to their elders in the family. This problem is not something that could be eradicated overnight, it should be tackled strategically with patience and it should be met as our countries future lies with these children.

These children may not be related to us by blood, but they are our brothers and sisters by nation and certainly one should remember that our nation’s future is decided by the state of these children’s growth. By neglecting them we are indirectly neglecting ourselves.

Well at the end of the day, it is up to you to decide whether you take up this problem seriously or as a super hero tale but i urge you to think for a moment and take up your decision and plan of action.

JOB SEARCH ??? : DON'T ASTRAY

I am a graduate. Like many other graduates of our nation, i uploaded my profile in to naukri . com , awaiting good job oppouttunities .

One fine afternoon, i got a call from an employment agency ,i got happy and thanked god for answering my prayers. I got totally thrilled upon hearing the other person speak about the job being offered to me. I was completely baffled and for a moment i was on a ride in to the dream world listening to the offers i was being offfered.
But, I ought to be the best engineer in the whole wide world for gaining that sort a job or perhaps the dumbest to get in to their words and travel the path of getting burglarized by those philanthropical job offering personnel. Only Time will decide .

After receiving a call from the so called employment agency, I decided to know weather such a company could exist or not. If it were a true company then it is good for our nation but just in case it turns out to be a bogus one, then they surely deserve a treatment for being a cause for creating disturbances in the minds of the young professionals leading them to choose paths which may be hampering the development of the nation.

In today's nation after 61 years of independence, unemployment still prevails in this nation and with passing out of huge young professionals every year, the hope of getting a job remains a dream and the dream of securing a comfortable high pay job lures every professional and an overseas job is like heaven on the earth for these unemployee people. With this weakness of today's young generation exposed like never before, gives an easy way through for the back stabbers to trap these young ones in to their way.

These young ones are offered high packages for paying a little amount in return("a little" when compared to the packages).these dreamers work hard, day and night to pool this money expecting their jobs in return. At the end of the day, they are left on the roads with huge depths lying on the back of their mind. It is at these weak crossroads of their lives, these young ones are easily diverted towards hurting their lives or hurting others for that matter and turning into anti social elements.

Those playing with the emotions of the young professionals and their families should be exposed to lime light and should be punished in such a way that no other person even ever dreams to repeat the same crime in the future.


It is now a high time to realize that government only can not solve the problems of the society; it is only when the society, press together with the government act towards solving problems, then the dream of an Ethiopia is not far from becoming true.


This break in to the company should be an eye opener to the society as well as young professionals, to be watchful while they negotiate with such companies and take responsibility, in fact it is their duty to report to either press or police just in case they feel it is bogus or just enquire about it for being sure before they invest. Its never wrong be watchful about where you are going to.



These below are the details by the company. Please note them.



Lucrative offers as per telephonic conversations held with councilor of the company Mr. S

1) starting salary more than 1 lack

2) free (food + accommodation +insurance)

3) 2 years renewable work permit

4) 2 times increment in a year

5) 32 holidays every year

6) Free to and fro tickets for journey to home

7) 1st promotion in 2 years

Things to be done by us

1) Rs: 5500 for medical examination at Coimbatore conducted by the agency

2) 3 sets of documents,15 colour photographs, passport(all in a CD)

3) Payment of 1.6 lacks in 2 installments

Issue of offer letter on payment of 1st installment

Issue of visa on 2nd installment



Email Id:


The fact that i am already an employee has given me an assurance to take time to ponder up on this issue. This may not have applied to those who were waiting eagerly for a job.

I have written an email to a reporter of INDIAN-EXPRESS,of that city. I am currently waiting for his response on the issue. I will post as and when i get another clue.

God save innocents .

MY INTERVIEW WITH COMMUNIST: COMRADE VETRICHEZHIAN

29/06/07: MY INTERVIEW WITH COMMUNIST COMRADE VETRICHEZHIAN

June 2007, I was on a desire to conduct survey regarding education systems for the less fortuned class of the society. I landed in Chennai, along with my friends, to conduct a survey on a few government educational institutions.

Fortunately in INDIA, Post high school, Government educational institutions are of the world’s best standards. The IITs and the IIMs for e.g., they debase every private institution which tries to compete with them, by dominating in every department from the infrastructure- to the students’ abilities and what not.

But, Unfortunately until high school, the government educational institutions are regarded as the institutions for the less fortuned people, for the sons and daughters of the daily laborers, for the servants of the fortuned people, for those who don’t belong to any family, for those who are used to dirty houses, dirty washrooms and dirty from top to bottom and what not. Even those who can’t afford private educational institutions would strive hard for an extra penny, so their children would get a going in to a private institute. This is the worst nightmare of Indian educational system. Perhaps the most mysterious and bewildering fact of our nation, quite an open secret though.

Through a friend of mine Suresh, who lives in Chennai, I got to visit PAVENTUR TAMIL MEDIUM SCHOOL, one of the first of its kind, the first of the kind I have been to, a communist run school. Run by Comrade Vetrichezhian in the outskirts of Chennai. The school is based in a square shaped yard divided in to two halves; one half contains all the classrooms with shed roofs where as the other half the play ground of the school. Towards one end of the square lies the office of the school where comrade’s chamber lies.

In the conversation I had with the comrade, he happened to tell me that his main goal behind the establishment of the communism based school is, to oppress the capitalism based private institutions, to subdue those institutions who charge huge ransoms of money only to make students mug up the answers, to outcast those institutions that only install- the urge to possess a goal to crack the entrance exams, rather than any sense of patriotism or social values in to the students.

Comrade Vetrichezhian tells me that it is the duty of the teachers to bring a change in the way of thinking of the students and it is purely their responsibility to make the students understand their social duties. He blames the media for misleading the students of today’s generation and quotes that for the students of this generation, patriotism is, purely and strictly and only, a cricket match.

Comrade has taken the decision to fight the problems of the society with the modern day weapon, the most effective weapon, EDUCATION.
He has decided to bring about a change to the society through EDUCATION and pledged to try his best to serve education to as many people as possible to bring about a social change.

Indeed, EDUCATION is the only solution to all social problems of the society.

The sooner we realize this Unseen fact, the better it is for our society.

MY INTERVIEW WITH a MISSED HERO

DATE 9/9/08 : MY INTERVIEW WITH a MISSED HERO

While I was on my way to the Surat city from Hazira, I happened to board an auto for transportation.

A young little boy boarded the auto along with me. A boy who looked not older than 8th or 9th class (around 13-14 year old), who had he been studying at a school would have carried books in his hands and would have been approaching a class or a tuition instead of going to a petrol bunk with an empty can in his hand to buy diesel for refilling his own driven truck. Yes indeed he is a truck, heavy vehicle driver. He was a very charming little boy, quick to grasp whats going on around him. He was sitting to the edge of the seat with his empty can in his hand. Laughing unwontedly to the sarcastic jokes on his state Bihar and his favorite real life hero Lalu Prasad Yadav.

I managed to drag him in to a little conversation wherein he told me about his journey from Bagalpura, BIHAR to Hazira, Gujarat to earn some money so he could run his 4 member family back home, 4 member family where 3 members are penniless, father due to his old age and brother who is jobless. He is certainly an example of responsibility.


He happened to run away from his home with a sum of Rs 1500 which he borrowed from a friend’s home, the friend who lured him about the money that he would be earning if he managed to escape out of his home. Little aware of the dangerous and hazardous places he would be made to work ,instead of supplying the much needed education to his budding life, instead of spending his childhood with in his mothers courtyard ,cherishing the love of his mother, which millions are deprived off, HE ran away from his home to the mirage of money.
Babuly yadav, age 16, as told by him, as told to him to be told to others, so that he is not caught by any govt. Authorities under child labour. But still he is underage to drive a heavy vehicle across the highways though. His MAALIK (boss) got him an illegal license to run the heavy vehicle in the national highway, which could be lethal for him as well as anyone who is traveling along with him.


Bablu yadav manages to earn around 3000 to 4000 a month from which he sends more than half of money to support his family back in Bagalpura. He aims to own his own truck in future when he grows big, as big he might have the privilege to own a legal license also. When asked about his happiness in the decision he has made, he happened to tell me he regrets the decision he has made but its too late for him to rebuild his life back home but he surely doesn’t lack the enthusiasm to work his way through his life to achieve what he wants.

In areas where industries dominate the location, there will be many children like Bablu yadav, who are misguided and brought to these places for working in there. They surely reduce the labour cost and can also be made to do double work.

It is time now to cut this infiltration of children from villages to these places and it is high time to put a check on this trend. Government and society should take a step forward to make these innocent children understand long term of benefits of education.

By looking at the charm and attentive nature of Bablu yadav, i realized that India had just given away a good engineer or a doctor, who could have served millions of people, instead of a MAALIK and his trucks.

Hundreds of Bablu yadavs are created everyday and millions of people of our nation lose much needed man power to serve the country.

Blame us-Jan 2008

Blame us : A 10 mins short movie on one of the major problems of street children was made in January 2008.

The film was shot in one day .

The movie blame us with a caption,The society is responsible for its own destruction shows that the creators of anti social elements of the society is the society itselfs.
The society is responsible for creating the anti social elements.It is indeed a common scene on the roads , the ill treatment of street children. This has a great effect on the little minds of these children. It slowly develops a sort of thinking which states " Why should i think of the society when the society doesnt think about me ? " and hence very much prone to anti social activities.
It urges the society to show a little bit of love and respect towards the street children.

The film is directed by me and music was scored by sricharan.Praveen,a 7th class student of timpany school visakhapatnam did the lead and sameer , abhijeet shared the screen in a few important scenes.


The film won a special mention award at Umang-08 at IIT-K.

The film was screen for press on 6th april for press and 11th april for public.

The movie is availble online at Youtube.

Street Diaries : March 2007

Street Diaries : A 20 Min Documentary Movie on STREET CHILDREN.
Shot in Visakhapatnam. Directed by me and Music was scored by sricharan pakala.

The Movie highlights the issue of street children and also displays various means by which the problem could be eradicated.

It contains interviews of about 10 street children from various locations of visakhapatnam and added to it are the interviews of few students commenting on the problem and giving their views to clear the problem

The movie was screen for press and public on 15th july 2007 and to rotary club members on 25th july 2007 .

The movie is uploaded in youtube : "Street-diaries"