The Turner Road Traffic Signal-India Shining
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He is the Turner Road Traffic Signal Kid.
He is a Child Laborer.
Yes India Shining.
He begins his work at 10 am on normal weekdays, festival times are stretched hours, no respite, heat sun, dust cold monsoon, and there is one season that prevails poverty. Period.
The older girls, mothers or overseers sit at one end of the signal close to Motivala Jewellers, while the kids wearing shorts, bare torsos, the little ones naked dirt unkempt
attack the motorists as soon as the signal comes to an halt, and they know their way around cars, motorbikes , buses and rickshas.They are not as convincing in their glib like the kids at the Mahim St Michaels Church Signal. Those kids invoke Allah if you are a Muslim, or Jesus Christ if you are a Christian, and their unending spiel can reall unnerve you if you are groping for your girlfriends tits in the back seat of a hot and humid cab, you just pay t get rid of those pesky eyes.
The Turner Road Traffic Signal kids are street smart ,but come from a tribal belt near Amravati, or Jalgaon in Maharashtra, they are direct in their approach, but not rowdy, their main asset is their unguarded smiles.
The little girls have misty eyes and at the age of 10 or 12 turn out to be damsels in a hurry, at about 13 they are already impregnated, the factory of producing kids. Kids is what brings the loot, kids is commodity , kids a week old are put on hire , slung to another kid, drugged and this little tyke to works the hours , no overtime , the clothes of the kids have no pockets , all the money is handed over to the overseer immediately.
Any truant, cheating, than the cheek is burnt with a burning iron rod, or the hand broken. Business ethics that are learnt the hard way. Food is the leftovers from Stomach Restaurant .There is a powerful Beggar Mafia and the Hafta System Syndrome prevails, everyone right up to the top echelons has their hand tainted with this blood money.
Everyone knows it but who cares.
The NGOS are not seen here they are where the big bucks are, big fat donations and the perks where issues are media covered.
I am not liked by the overseers I don’t need to explain.
The most important begging days is the Independence Day Republic Day selling flags and other such badges sops,etc.
Than Dassera, Diwali,Xmas.
The Mount Mary Feast the Turner Road Traffic Signal kids move bag and baggage to the steps that lead out from the Basilica of the Mount , here each beggar makes at an average about Rs 1400 per day. This is for a week, and there are about more than 35 members a rough guess.
The older ladies make a killing weaving flower in a bunch as floral tribute.
The guys the husbans, they play cards, drink and fornicate, here a father in a drunken stupor can impregnate the daughter, the end product is what matters.. a new born child.
Ready for hire 8 hourly basis.
The grown up boys about 14 to 16 are the studs, walkman, music mopped up hair, tight crotchy jeans, and horny as hell, their job to keep the little kids from sneaking the loot..
These Studs openly flirt, impress the prepubescent babes, and the babes well for them these hard on guys are better than Salman Khan the Bollywood Heart Throb.
This is a life at the Turner Road Traffic Signal.
Some of the studs service the begging Hijdas and are fabulously rewarded..
These youngster get into drinks , drugs and into petty crime, just to make a quick buck..
Yes India Shining.
