now let us see the summary of the lesson last spring here is the first part of the lesson the first excerpt describes the narrator's encounters with a child named sahib sahib and his family migrated from dhaka after their homes and fields were destroyed by storms now they live on the outskirts of delhi digging through garbage dumps in the city for their livelihood saheb does not go to school because there are none in his neighborhood the narrator lightheartedly asks sahib if he would attend a school started by her he agrees and even asks the narrator about it a few days later she realizes that she had made a promise she had not really meant to keep and recognizes with embarrassment that for children like sahib such broken promises are common the narrator notes that sahib and his friends are mostly barefoot and have never owned shoes in their life those who do have shoes wear mismatched ones the narrator recalls seeing many such barefoot children across the country she recollects people explaining this away as tradition and wonders if this is just an excuse to hide how widespread poverty is the narrator then recollects our visit to semapuri on the outskirts of delhi where migrants like sahib's family live the neighborhood is dotted with mud and tin houses without water or drainage the residents there have no identity papers except russian cards which enable them to get food for them having a source of food is more important than having an identity this is why they prefer to be here than in their own home country where they went hungry the narrator notes that for the adults in srimapuri rag picking is a source of livelihood [Music] but for children like sahib it is a source of hope as they even find money sometimes among garbage one morning the narrator finds sahib watching two young men playing tennis she notices that sahib is wearing someone's old tennis shoes and ponders that though he has the shoes he might never be able to play the game another day she sees saheb with a steel canister he had started working at a t-stall the narrator notes that sahib is no longer carefree now that he works for someone else now let us see the second part the second excerpt focuses on the lives of families in firozabad here generations of families including children have spent your lives in dark dingy rooms around hot furnaces welding and making glass bangles the narrator introduces mukesh who belongs to one such family but whose ambition is to become a motor mechanic she describes her visit to mukesh's home which is situated in a locality with stinking lanes and crumbling homes [Music] mukesh's family is extremely embarrassed despite years of hard labor by mukesh's father lucas's grandmother implies that they will never skip this as it is a family profession that they have been carrying on for many generations the narrator notes that the entire locality is full of children and their parents who make bangles in the dark quite often the children go blind before entering adulthood also if child labor laws are enforced in philosophy it would free at least 20 000 children from this dangerous trade the narrator describes the sense of hopelessness that pervades firozabad for instance an old lady tells the narrator how she has never enjoyed a square mill in her lifetime youngsters too seem to feel trapped and do not take any initiative because they are afraid of being harassed by the police the narrator clearly sees two distinct worlds here one of the poverty stricken bengal makers limited by their caste linked profession and that of middlemen and authorities who ensure that the vicious cycle circle continues both worlds stop young children from dreaming making them slaves to their fate hence the narrator is cheered by mukesh's declaration his dreams though modest indicate that the next generation can escape this web of poverty [Music] you