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Prize winning responses for the photograph published last week.

Failure of education system

The picture evokes both positive and negative response. It reflects the pathetic life of the small girl. It’s a pity that the girl is denied education, in spite of the system in India — “Sarvashiksha Abhiyaan”. Though the trick performed is brilliant, which no doubt earns her family a proper square meal a day, it reveals how the girl is made use of as a child labourer. It is one of the sources of their livelihood, but our ignorant people, the passers-by, will lose a precious athlete, who might earn an Olympic medal, or who knows a social activist campaigning to save mother earth!

S.KRITHIVASAN, Std XI, Holy Family Mat. Hr. Sec. School

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Future Olympian?

Those docile feet, which once dreamt of being clad in polished shoes leading her to school, now precariously hang on ropes. “Survival”, invariably is the need of the hour. Parents would do anything for money. This moppet is just one of the many, doing what everyone in her kin does. Look at those eyes, the tremendous amount of focus they gleam, her balance, her gait, nothing less than pure raw talent, of course unnoticed and unrecognized. Should the government wake up and do its bit, India could party in triumph of an Olympic gold medallist in Gymnastics!!!

ANGANA, EEE, Easwari Engineering College

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Thread of hope

There are three different things which strike one’s mind on seeing the picture. The first one is the grim reminder that child labour is far from abolished. Next is the audience; either ignoring it or watching it helplessly with a certain amount of admiration. But what strikes you the most is that the child isn’t walking just any tightrope. For her, it is the thread of hope — hope for survival and livelihood.

SUNALINI ESTHER, III Year, B.Arch, Anna University

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A nation’s dream

When school students are celebrating Nov 14 as Children’s day, This girl unaware of the consequences, performs a stunt for the daily bread. It shows the dark side of the country’s future too. If they are not directed in the right path today how can they become eminent persons of tomorrow? Abdul Kalam feels that by 2020, India can become a developed country, but it looks likes other leaders have never dreamt about such a country as they are busy fighting for seats.

N.ASHWARYA, I Year (EE), RMK Engineering college

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Rope of success

The pretty girl performing the balancing act is a miniscule picture of success. Standing before a background of green foliage she is the symbol of spring and hope. It is the hope to reach the other end with absolute balance. Challenges are aplenty but success is sweet. It is not cat walk but a studied, steady gait on the ramp of life. Let’s rate her performance as more than calculated risk but the dare devil risks bring the biggest laurels. Slowly, oh slowly, she walks on the rope with SUCCESS written large on her face.

ANTENETTE SAVIOLA DIVYA. A, I Year, B. Com (Corporate Secretaryship), Sri S. S. Shasun Jain College for Women

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Uncertainty

In the picture, I see India’s future. The next generation and its future that seems to be as uncertain as a child walking on a tightrope, only one strong wind away from teetering over the edge. With only the ever faltering Sensex and the steady rise in inflation as today’s reality, the question remains, “How secure is the tomorrow of today’s child?”

RACHEL PAMELA JOSEPH, I Year, B. A. English, WCC

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