After much insistence from school, we started 'face to face' learning. Schools were reopened in August 2020 with alternate days of attendance at school and combination of online schooling. Then it transitioned to alternate days with different groups going to school. Schools were again closed briefly in December following a second wave of Corona. In February 2021, schools are back to full time 'face to face' learning and from 1st week of March, school is on for 5 days a week. So, Kavita went back to school with much excitement and, it's been a week and a half. With credit to the school, the SOPs are being followed to the letter. As we were going back home the first day, excitedly regaling ourselves with stories of being back with friends, of course, we saw little girls, barefoot, heads covered in dirty dupattas, at the traffic lights begging for money. That little girls are begging for money on the road while privileged kids are driving back home for schools really is an ugly picture of our society where begging children are totally invisible, irrelevant. Then there's the idiocy , total jahalat on display where you see these privileged children sticking out of the roofs of vehicles. Begging kids and children riding in cars on roads of Islamabad. Parents and/or mafia is often blamed/explained for begging children. But how do we explain privileged parents letting their kids dangle out of the roofs of their cars on busy roads? Why can't we take care of poor children and, why can't we follow basic rules on the road?
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