CBSE Class 12th Core English Flamingo chapter 2 summary in English and Hindi

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The Lost Spring Summary

Summary of The Lost Spring – Stories of stolen Childhood – The author tells us stories of her interactions with children from deprived backgrounds. She describes their poor condition and life in an interesting manner. The story touches the reader and is thought-provoking.


The author described two of her encounters with children from deprived backgrounds. Through them she wants to highlight the plight of street children forced into labour early in life and are denied the opportunity of schooling. Also, she brings out the callousness of society and the political class towards the sufferings of the poor. The first encounter is with a rag picker boy named Saheb – E – Alam who migrated from Bangladesh in 1971 and lives in Seemapuri in Delhi. These ragpicker children look for ‘valuables’ in the garbage – things like a coin or torn shoes which are as precious as ‘gold’ for them.

They could hardly manage some food for themselves, other things like identity, education, shoes and sports are their unfulfilled dreams. Their parents scrounged the garbage searching for things that helped them survive – afford food, clothing and shelter for the family. The children hunted through the garbage heaps looking for things which could partially fulfil their unfulfilled dreams.

One day the writer saw the boy, holding a steel can, going towards the milk booth. He had got a job at a tea stall. He was happy that he would get eight hundred rupees and all the meals. The writer noticed that Saheb had lost the freedom of being his own master which he had enjoyed as a rag picker.

The second boy was Mukesh who belonged to a family of bangle makers in Firozabad. The boy had a dream of becoming a car mechanic. On the contrary, his family was traditionally engaged in bangle making, although the profession harmed them physically and they hardly earned any money out of it.

Still, no one dared to dream of doing something else due to the fear of the police and the middlemen. The family elders were content that other than teaching the art of bangle–making to their children, they had been able to build them a house to live in. The boy wanted to be a car mechanic. Cars were all that Mukesh had seen on the roads of his town and so, he could not dream any further.


The Lost Spring Summary in Hindi

द लॉस्ट स्प्रिंग – स्टोरीज़ ऑफ़ स्टोलेन चाइल्डहुड” की लेखिका अनीस जंग हमें वंचित पृष्ठभूमि के बच्चों के साथ अपनी बातचीत की कहानियां सुनाती है । वह उनकी खराब स्थिति और जीवन का दिलचस्प तरीके से वर्णन करती है। कहानी पाठक को छूती है और विचारोत्तेजक है।


लेखक ने वंचित पृष्ठभूमि के बच्चों के साथ अपनी दो मुलाकातों का वर्णन किया है। उनके माध्यम से वह सड़क पर रहने वाले उन बच्चों की दुर्दशा को उजागर करना चाहती हैं जिन्हें जीवन में जल्दी श्रम करने के लिए मजबूर किया जाता है और उन्हें स्कूली शिक्षा के अवसर से वंचित कर दिया जाता है।


साथ ही वह समाज और राजनीतिक वर्ग के लोगों की गरीबों के प्रति बेरुखी को सामने लाती है।

पहली मुलकत साहेब-ए-आलम नाम के एक कूड़ा उठाने वाले लड़के के साथ है जिसका परिवार 1971 में बांग्लादेश से पलायन कर गया और दिल्ली के सीमापुरी में रहता है। ये कचरा उठाने वाले बच्चे कचरे में ‘मूल्यवान’ चीजें जैसी की सिक्के या फटे जूते की तलाश करते हैं जो उनके लिए ‘सोने’ जितनी कीमती होती हैं।


वे मुश्किल से अपने लिए कुछ खाने का प्रबंध कर पाते हैं , पहचान, शिक्षा, जूते और खेल जैसी अन्य चीजें उनके अधूरे सपने हैं। उनके माता-पिता कचरे की छानबीन करते हैं जिससे उन्हें जीवित रहने में मदद मिलती है – परिवार के लिए भोजन, कपड़े और आश्रय का खर्च पूरा करने के लिए पैसे जुटाने के चक्कर में वे कचरे के ढेर से चीज़ें इकठी कर बेचते हैं ।

बच्चे कचरे के ढेर में से ऐसी चीजों की तलाश में थे जो उनके अधूरे सपनों को आंशिक रूप से पूरा कर सकें।


एक दिन लेखक ने लड़के को स्टील का डिब्बा पकड़े दूध के बूथ की ओर जाते देखा। उसे एक चाय की दुकान पर नौकरी मिल गई थी। वह खुश था कि उसे आठ सौ रुपये और पूरे दिन का खाना मिल जाएगा। लेखक ने देखा कि अब साहेब ने अपना खुद के मालिक होने की स्वतंत्रता खो दी थी, जिसका आनंद उसने एक कूड़ा उठाने वाले के रूप में लिया था।

दूसरा लड़का मुकेश था जो फिरोजाबाद में चूड़ी बनाने वाले परिवार से ताल्लुक रखता था। लड़के का कार मैकेनिक बनने का सपना था। इसके विपरीत, उनका परिवार पारंपरिक रूप से चूड़ी बनाने में लगा हुआ था, हालाँकि पेशे ने उन्हें शारीरिक रूप से नुकसान पहुँचाया और उन्होंने मुश्किल से कोई पैसा कमाया। यह पेशा न तो उन्हें कमाई देता बल्कि उनकी सेहत भी खराब कर देता।



फिर भी पुलिस और बिचौलियों के डर से किसी की हिम्मत नहीं हुई कि वह कुछ और करने का सपना देखे।


परिवार के बुजुर्ग इस बात से संतुष्ट थे कि अपने बच्चों को चूड़ी बनाने की कला सिखाने के अलावा, वे उनके रहने के लिए एक घर बनाने में सक्षम थे।


लड़का कार मैकेनिक बनना चाहता था। वाहन ही थे जो मुकेश ने अपने शहर की सड़कों पर देखे थे और इसलिए, वह उस के आगे कोई और सपना नहीं देख सकता था। अगर उसने आसमान में हवाई जहाज़ देखा होता तो शायद वो पायलट बनने का सपना भी देख लेता।



The Lost Spring Theme 

The sad position of poor children who are forced to have a wretched life and forgo the fun times of childhood due to their social circumstances is the subject of the story “Lost Spring.” These children are compelled to labour from an early age and are not given the opportunity to pursue an education. Anees Jung, the writer, makes a concerted effort to end child labour. She advocates for government enforcement of strict laws prohibiting child work as well as enforce the education of children. The word was spread so that child exploitation might be stopped and all children could enjoy their happy, springtime days. She talks about her encounter with a slum dweller kid named Saheb-e-Alam who is a ragpicker and wishes to play tennis and go to a school. However, these wishes remain unfulfilled. Another boy named Mukesh hails from a family of bangle makers from Firozabad. Their lives are miserable because the profession does not provide a good livelihood and harms them physically too. The boy dreams to do something different but his dreams are restricted to the life that he has seen in his hometown. He aspires to become a car mechanic. 

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