To survive in India is dreadful if you are destined to be born as a poor child, the extent of pain that these children have to go through is terrible. These children will not get any money for the necessary food they need, if they are perfectly healthy. Therefore the Indians that live in poverty have created a terrible and brutal method of increasing the household’s income. The method is basically making the children handicapped, and that is in fact the parents or the caretakers who is responsible of this. This method is shown in this exact short story: “Chokra” by the Indian writer Numair Choudhury.
In the story, we meet a poor little girl called: “Munmun,” who have been living in one of the many kerosene drums, for the purpose of making her crippled. Therefore her brother is pushing her around in a trolley, walking door-to-door in search of the money they need. Munmun and her brother’s method raises new problems, they are starting to angering people, Munmun’s brother he explains people’s angers like this: “Before, I used to wonder why the sight of Munmun and I angered people so much. It took a while before I understood. They could not stand our sight, we disgusted them; sickened them. Because we were what they might have to do themselves, one day, to their own children.” (p.2, l.79-84) Therefore, there is now an explanation to why some people slam their door in Munmun and her brother’s faces. They fear their own thoughts and actions, when will it be them who has to torture their own children. However, hurting children is a terrible thing to do, so when the people slam their doors, they are merely postponing these terrible decisions the children’s parents has chosen.
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