*Weekend Over*

This was a nice weekend overall and for a change I am writing the blog without Prach asking me to write it :)
Typical sunday is a lazy morning (and if you stick around read more of my daily blogs
Lazy is how I start my day)
and a quick de tour of office as there was some LAN cable switching shwitching,
had to make sure everything was A OK before everything went back to Monday mode.

Went to Khan Market today and had this tall poor kid begging for guess what ?
well, his exact words were, "didi, chips khila do"
And I could not help but stare at him.
One I do not give money to street beggars and it seems they always end up chasing me thinking just because I look soft I am soft and will melt and sympathize and loosen my purse grip.
Sympathize I do but not the other bit.
( What to say its a sad state of affairs for the poor whichever way you look at it, especially the kids and the older people)
Two, from asking for food to a chips bag, Macdonald's Pepsi etc, commercialization has really caught us and not left the street kids untouched.
and as if by telepathy while driving back there was this RJ talking about a girl on a specific red light who begs in a particular style and she was asking people to call her up (Yawn!) and share their experience.
I remembered one of such experience .While driving to Okhla from JNU there is this red light and there was this road work that had been going on for some time and the labourers had there tents somewhere nearby. A couple of kids would be on this red light and try and clean your windshield and then ask for a rupee (very dangerous).This little girl came next to my window and tells me, "didi, aaj bahut achi lag rahi ho, ek rupiya de do". I could not help but smile and gave her a rupee. Made me wonder if somebody taught her that or was I really looking nice.Vanity I tell you made me sacrifice my principle.
Since, then I have heard many use the same line.
The kid today also reminded me of this kid I met at the entrance of Dilli Haat and was very persistent that I get my shoes polished and I refused. So he asked me for some bucks and I was like what do you need that for? and he goes I am hungry,mujhey chowmein khana hai.. So knowing that govt. schools offer free lunches as an incentive for the poor to join and get educated I asked him if he went to school and had his mid day meal and he very innocently said, " haan lekin woh to din mein khaya tha.Ab to shaam ho gayi"
Speechless I gave him a tenner.

How do you expect a kid to understand that begging is a crime when he is not even getting proper meals?