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About the Book

Our towns and cities arc being over-run with these children, found on the streets scavenging, rag-picking, roaming the market places and railway platforms, instead of being with their families and in schools. We look at them from the outside and condemn them, because of our standards which we are accustomed to think of as right and just. The author takes us into the inside of these faceless “pests” of society, citizens of nowhere. There we discover their hopes, ambitions and struggle to be what every child should be. The experiences shared in this book touch the chords of sympathy in the heart of the reader and indicate what is possible to those who love.

Fr. Ralph da Costa S.J.

Rector, De Noblili College, Pune.

These tales of children on railway stations………….transport the reader into a world plagued by a sense of deep insecurity, loneliness and longing for companionship and affection. The author has portrayed the lives of these children with compassion and hope for their better future.’

Camil Parkhe,

Senior Copy Editor cum Journalist The Maharastra Herald.

About the Author

The Author, Vikram Anthony, a Jesuit student studying Philosophy at Jnana-Deep Vidyapeet, Pune, is a graduate in Journalism from St Aloysius College, Mangalore. ‘The Dustbin Jewels’ his maiden effort, a fruit of his personal experience with the Railway Platform children in and around Pune.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Citizens Say

Foreword by Cyril Desbruslais SJ.

Introduction

1. Knowing the Platform Children

2. Child Rights be Heard…

3. Freedom is…?

4. Justice Anywhere.

5. Who is Responsible

6. Broken Wing…?

7. Acceptance… ?

8. Sensitivity…?

9. Loneliness…?

10. God…?

11. Attitude…?

12. Orphan…?

13. I am the Victim….Why?

14. Love…?

15. Unlucky…?

16. Sucide…?

17. Anger…?

18. Selfish…?

19. Broken Relationship…?

20. It takes Courage to Visualize a Silent Dream?

21. Bribe…?

22. My Future…? Bibliography