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We love Saturdays! There is so much time that the kids have to spare, all thanks to the Shani Daan practice, which enables them to earn a lot of money before Street Smart begins. For Shani Daan, the kids carry mustard oil in their begging bowls, sometimes with a metal figurine that is supposed to […]
Dear friends. Please forgive the silence of the last week. We have been looking for a solution to our current dilemma. The shop keepers of the Omkar Plaza threw us of our pitch unceremoniously last week with almost no notice. Political aspirations were more important than teaching the young of the area. Having said that, […]
Welcome to summer-time at Street Smart! In continuation with the previous post about rising tempers and fights among kids, the strife between Gopi and Suraj escalated to an almost gang-war level when both boys gathered their respective supporters (which obviously means other silly teenagers who are driven by the hormone-triggered aggression). Everybody was beaten up […]
It could be the heat or a hundred other reasons, but on Saturday, the kids were fuming! All of them! To begin with, I met Gopi and Sajan (two kids from Parade Ground) sitting on the border-wall of Gandhi Park. Both of them promptly turned their faces when they saw me and stubbornly chanted “Please […]
