Title: Platform no. 5 /
Authors: Vanaja, C.,; Prasar Bharti Corporation (India); Public Service Broadcasting Trust (New Delhi, India)
Publisher: Public Service Broadcasting Trust,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Street children India Social conditions.
Abstract: Wajid, Vinay, and Sandeep are on the street by choice. They live off selling bottles collected from trains. An ecnomically independent and self reliant childhood, free from school and home seems quite adventurous. Ideas about love. fear, respect, and money picked up from movies are from the street may or may not be different from the other kids. But some stark difference emerge. Their life is constantly threatened by the very elements that protect them today. Fun loving, easy goind, happy go lucky, Wajid and his friends reflect the lives of millions of such children who are looking at a future that is dangerous at best or short and the worst.