This goes out to a little girl whom I saw selling roses at a traffic signal. I saw her while I was happily loitering in Mumbai, when my auto stopped at a Bandra signal. She stood before us with a weak smile on her face – a street child, downtrodden, shabby like them street kids, who all look the same. I was in the middle of pitying her when the auto guy hopped ahead as the signal opened.
Want to write more for her, but it’s okay..
PS: By the way, kids come in variety! Later, in Bangalore, I came across a similar ‘rose’ girl (people who frequent the Brigade Road may recall this very beautiful girl selling red roses at the Brigade Road junction), and when I suggested her (feeling unsure of those words myself) “go and study”, she retorted in neatly-spoken english, with a frown on her young face: “I go to school from morning till noon alright; not like you, roaming around with girls all day”. When the shock subsided, I found myself hiding my face, and then betrothed in laughter with a friend I was with. I think I was also happy at her self-assuredness : )
October 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM |
girls!! vee-tee when are you letting some things out of the closet?
October 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM |
ha ha…! I still laugh at that incident..! I was like oh man..! She just was to clever and rude..! But like they say children tend to notice a lotta things than us..! They see the world in a more better perspective than rest of us..
That was shocking and surprising..!
But still it was nonethe less funny..!
PS : Guys, Vaibhav was actually so taken upon this small cute kashmiri girl selling roses that he went up to her asking “do you go to school”…
and that when she gave that scornfull reply..!
awww…how sweet were you..!! I still cant get it outta my head…that whole incident..!
November 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM |
Children watch their surroundings more keenly than elders