A boy with a difference

Last week while I was passing by the Bhahadur Shah Park near Jagannath University, I saw a blind boy playing pipe sweetly. There was a small crowd around him. When he finished playing, everyone gave him some money. When I found him alone, I asked him his whereabouts. “I don't beg as I think it is an inferior job. I give people pleasure by playing the pipe. And they happily give me something. I somehow manage,” replied the eight-year old boy named Suren Tonga. I came to know that he lost his parents at his early years. Though he is visually impaired, he fights for his survival each and every day. There are so many blind poor people around us who beg for a living, but Suren is quite different. We should extend our helping hands towards this kind of honest boys.

Bipul K Debnath
Dept. of English
Dhaka College, Dhaka