Sunday, 20 November 2011

the sha(me)


Captured him doodling/dreaming under the banner of an exclusive apartment in one of the most expensive areas of Dhaka. These kids are literally being treated as stray dogs and their numbers are significantly large and growing. If they are given a gun and asked to take a person's life, I wonder, what would stop them and why? What system of values had he been taught and how was his own life ever valued? How were they treated by people who are addressed as people by our society and why he should be compassionate towards one?

As we ponder about the corruption that has crippled our land; as we think about the rapes, the murders, the riots and the money-hungry-politicians; we must think about how a growing population of street children dejected by our society might be linked to all our worries.