A Child's Nightmare - The Quintessential School Bag, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.
This is her new school bag , once the books are bought it will weigh more than half her body weight, the school bag reminds the girl child that this is the forerunner to her future world.. she will be burdened all her life , on her back will always be the imaginary school bag..there is no escaping the school bag.
Our education system is only for the rich and the elitist..the poor are stuck with municipal schools or the better convent schools.
This girl is frantic not because I am shooting her , but because she knows I have tapped her inner consciousness of her impending fate as a woman.
This mmornings Times narrates a story of young parents from Mumbai who take their child to be admitted to Asram Bapus Asram school on the outskirts of Bhopal, and they hitch a ride on a black Innova, the man has a gun put on his head and is wife is repeatedly gang raped..the guys have not been caught as yet.
A heavy price to pay for educating your child..
And today the kids at Behrampada slums wont go to school as their houses in the locality of Behrampada Bandra East was gutted down by a fire, here the slum houses are almost three story tin structures ..with very narrow by lanes..
Yes it is a very sad day for the denizens of this area..predominantly poor Muslims.
