Nipping The Flowers In The Bud!!!!!!

Every time I visit the Brigade Road of Bangalore, I always find innumerable flower sellers, selling red and yellow roses. Be it scorching heat or chilling cold or piercing rain, these flower sellers are always present there.


What is more appalling is that none of these flower sellers are more than 10 years of age. The time when they should be in the serene environment of classrooms, they are amidst the hustling and bustling of the metropolitan Bangalore crowd. And we are hypocritical enough to talk about the eradication of child labour. When such an activity can exist in the most hip place where 'educated' people frequent, then only RAB (the word RAB is back in vogue. Thanks to King Khan and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi) can tell the plight of these innocent toddlers in rural India. And again we are hypocritical enough to talk about increasing literacy rate.

Another surprising aspect is that these sellers carry red and yellow roses and they know whom to offer a red rose and whom to offer a yellow rose. The intelligence which they should be putting in studying something worthwhile is being wasted in doing things that in no way benefits them.

There are seldom any people who would buy those roses but these sellers never give up hope and try looking for alternate buyers. It could be direct selling as you would be putting it in the marketing language and these sellers have begun doing that from a tender age. If their energies are utilized in a correct channel then who knows, they could be the future entrepreneurs of India.

This is something which we need to act upon and act upon fast before precious lives of these toddlers are wasted and before these blooming flowers are nipped in the bud.