Lost Spring
Lost Spring Stories of Stolen Childhood About the Author Anees Jung (born 1944) was born in Rourkela and grew up in Hyderabad. She studied in Hyderabad and in the United States. Her parents were both writers. She began her career as a writer in India and worked as an editor and columnist for major newspapers in India and abroad. She has written several books. This chapter is an excerpt from her book Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood, where she exposes grinding poverty and customs that trap children in exploitation. Expressions in the Text and Their Meanings These expressions are used in the chapter, and their meaning can be understood from the context: looking for → searching for perpetual state of poverty → a never-ending condition of poverty slog their daylight hours → work very hard throughout the day dark hutments → small, poor, dimly lit makeshift huts roof over his head → a basic shelter/home imposed the baggage on the child → burdened the child with respo...