The Blogger

Voice of a street child Every day, my life throws a new challenge to me, a challenge of survival, a challenge to fill my stomach again, a challenge to fulfill my job no matter how harsh circumstances are. My life is not like the life of other children, whose infancy starts with love and care, my life is a little bit different. It is the life which any parent will never want for his child and any child will never dream of, even in his worst nightmare.  At the age of 5 when other children go to school of learning I am taken to the school of “beggary”, an unusual world which showed me no matter which school you go, life is all about survival. At the age of 10, when many children like me, play with video games, I struggle to make my earning for the day. I never dream of having mobile phones as my birthday present, Instead, I just wanted to have a piece of cloth to protect myself from this shivering cold. However, in this war of survival I often tasted the bitterness of fail...

Am I a part of this so called “unified” country India?Do my countrymen whom I  refer as “brothers and sisters” even recognize me ? This is what every single person who have different features in terms of their appearance must be thinking, whenever they suffer any discrimination. Today, people of North-east are facing discrimination which made them vulnerable to many crimes like assault, murders, rape etc. They are often insulted by slurs like Chinki, Nepalese, Chinese etc. In the recent study conducted by Jamia Millia Islamia's Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research with National Commission for Women (NCW) found that 60% of women from North East India, who have moved to major cities in India, are reported to face harassment and discrimination. Delhi is a place where one can easily see the amalgamation of culture and is considered as one of the place which has the largest number of educated civilized citizens. Still, city wise- New Delhi is reported to be most intoler...