Few come there for respite, few for livelihood, few lazy bunches for begging, so on..It is a big green umbrella giving shade to many people under it.
I spent 2 hrs this morning there in cool breeze, basking in the sun rays falling through the holes of the umbrella. Those 2 hours, I did nothing except watching people around me.
while I was watching a happy family with mom,dad and their two children, a lady beggar approached me asking for money to feed milk for her baby, I just looked at the baby she is holding under her saree before taking out change from my purse, when I tried to confirm that the baby is really a baby she was just holding a bundle of clothes and food items wrapped up under her saree. These days beggars are playing new strategies to improve their begging skills. There may be few genuine cases but for many it has become fraudy business. I never knew there always existed a beggar community until slumdog millionaire exposed the beggar mafia of India to the whole world. When I was a kid, I remember lazy beggars with a bowl in their hands sitting on platforms,outside temples so called royal begging, now they are evolving with strategies to improve their business. It is really gut wrenching whenever I see wretched amputated kids begging. Few doctors who were involved in this beggar mafia contract had been arrested recently for amputating kids. how pathetic!
After 15min I sent that lady away, Two decently dressed middle aged persons approached and started explaining about their voluntary organisation to create awareness among the people about how earth is getting contaminated, how our natural resources are going vulnerable and concomitant solutions. Their work was quite impressive, they are freely distributing magazines (named AWAKE) every month to as many people as they can. Those magazines are all about what happened, what is happening, what is going to happen, how would they affect us. Every month they write on different topic like "Running out of water","Green Revolution","internet on children" etc. We can register ourselves to get those magazines every month. I thanked and appreciated those two persons for their voluntary work, ensured them that I would surely try to read their magazines.
I passed some time there watching an young lady teaching kids [did not try to find out what actually was happening but sounded to be some other type of voluntary work]
While I was coming out, that lady beggar was sleeping blissfully under the green umbrella throwing her baby but not baby a side.
Few are volunteering for good, Few are fooling for bad, Few are watching, appreciating and criticising.
