We have only 5 photos and two videos (shot from a cellphone)…

The handycam videos will take time…and i think by that time we would have visited there a couple of times more…but they are the REAL ones…

Anyways, I am uploading the ones we have here…do check later for more…

And we have planned next visit there on 1st Feb…

VIDEOS

Note: I still firmly believe that I cannot ‘make you feel’ the way I felt there…but still, something is better than nothing!

We were late!!! But the kids were almost unaware and were watching TV…

There were around 35-40 children sitting on a carpet - most of them seemed to be below the age of 10.

As we reached, we had to wait for some time for VCD player to be ready…and other stuff!

By that time, Vanira started chatting with them (finding out “Kiske-kiske daant chuha le gaya“)…

Kunal and Miral too were quick to find out a small child and chatting with them…

then, a kid brought his drawing book to show it to Miral…and all others followed, “Bhaiya, meri drawing bhi dekho”…

Then I noticed that while I was focusing the handycam on all the above things, there were a few children whose focus was constantly on the handycam…they were obviously curious to see something that seemed like camera yet so different!

When I turned the screen towards them (in a way that they could see their own faces in it), all the kids wanted to look at their face on the screen, and they got very eager to do that…so I moved the camera towards everyone of them one after the other…

They were so delighted…I wouldn’t have been so delighted even if I saw myself on KBC…it was a moment that they would have never expected to take place in their lives!!! For us, the fortunate ones, it means nothing!

Then, as we started the movie, a child went and sat in Nidhis lap…half way thru the movie, he slept in her lap only…

Also, a child went and sat in Miral’s lap…I think he hated the movie…since the time the movie started, he started hitting miral on his thighs…he was enjoying so much…(even I wld love to do that)…after sometime we found the child pulling mirals nose and opening his mouth, and continuously hitting ‘the Punching Bag’ …

All the time during the movie (the print was very very bad) we noticed that some children were just enjoying and laughing when Snowbell (the cat) ran after Stuart (little)…and sometimes when Stuart would just be running around, hanging from tree…and be locked in a washing machine…

After the movie, Nidhi and Sagar started playing “Langdi”…

Sanju and I were talking to the person who takes care of all these children (A person named Devendra/Devansh and his wife run the Orphanage. He is a sub-editor in a Hindi magazine. They usually manage to get some funds from people around.) And Kunal to Yash (Yash is the oldest kid there. He is in FYJC - Vocational course in some college in Grant road.).

Then, we all saw Miral on one leg…thank God he didnt fall…that was the time we forgot everything and started playing with them…not thinking anything…

When I went to play, the kids came to me with a handkerchief, telling me, “Bhaiya, meri baari hai”…they wanted me to tie the kerchief on their eyes so that they cld catch others…those children were getting more fun from catching others rather than hiding…

I started tying it on each ones eyes turn after turn…they also kept coming back…that time i was completely lost in their smiles and I had only one thought in my mind - to give as much fun and happiness to those children as i could…

Then they all went to play “Tug of war”…and were enjoying falling on each other (for some reason)…they kept on falling and enjoying…

Then, Nidhi (most probably, I did not note it properly…but I felt so. I was busy tying the kerchief still) was telling stories to them…

Then they played Antakshari and one child danced on many songs…he was very good at it…

Ohhh…then the most amazing part…they played “kabaddi” with miral…haaa, miral was the waekest link…all small ones (chillar pillar) were scaring him…some of them were brilliant at it…they must be practising a lot…

Then, Devendra said, its theri time to study. (Their schedule was fixed. Daily Yoga in the morning, breakfast, school, sleep, play, study, watch TV and sleep. They also went to schools - some in Marathi and some in Hindi medium).

As, we left, Megha could not leave Gauri…(below)…she was continuously playing with all of us and was very shy…very sweet…

But we had to go, and while we were leaving, many of them asked, “Fir kab aaoge? Kaunsi picture dkhaoge?”

And yes, with no doubt in our minds and without having to discuss it amongst ourselves (whether it is feasible or not), we said, “Hum jaldi aayenge…aur ab Spiderman lekar aayenge”…we all knew…we will come back…and keep coming back…

well, i could not have put it in better words. actually,i have an honest confession to make. when i decided to join the club i was apprehensive about my staying in it. i had never felt the way others feel about human beings. i share their idea.that is for sure.but like everyone else(who are outside the club) i always use to get stuck. stuck at a point where people say “i feel on this issue” or “i am concerned for this issue”….but “feelings” are not enough.i realised after the bhayender visit. there are things to be done. people have an “atleast” theory. “atleast my sympathy is with those kids” but atleast does not help. it will never help. no amount of “atleast” will help Mr. Debansh and his wife Archana who are looking after these 50 kids in some 800 or 900 square feet of house(if you can say that ‘a house’). it looked like something else to me. may be you will understand me when the videos are there on the site.

a troubled guy

kunal

Minutes will now on be posted on our forum…i will definitely provide a link here…

28th Jan MEETING MINUTES HERE

I am very very confused…I dont knowhow to start…I dont know what to say…

When I remember that day…yesterday…I can just not describe it…

I have never ever felt like this in my whole life…a mix of tremendous joy, satisfaction, dissappointment, frustration and “A strong will - determination” to do something about those 50 children…who have been denied their right to “affection”, “love” and “a feeling of belongingness” by everyone…I cant explain or even describe what I saw and felt there…And I know for sure even if i try describing it…I wont be able to write even 1%…

It is not that I saw anything very out-of-this-world…before going there I had an image of those people in my mind…they were not very different from that…but the things that I felt there were something I did not expect…

I think I better post all videos and photos on the site…but that will take time…I will do it before wednesday…

And I think till that time others can tell about their experiences…

In this meet, we discussed some functional stuff, and then dirctly moved on to discuss what project we are going to take…

We contributed our 20Rs., and decided a few things abt registration.

We then listed down all ideas that we had and short-listed 4 ideas to be taken up as projects for this week.

NOTE: We also decided that a person can join the club only during projects. So, if anyone wants to join, can contact us before 24th jan to join through 26th jan project. If not, you can join only when we take up next series of projects (mostly in the next week).

“Never try to explain urself to anyone because…..
The person who likes doesn’t need it and the person who dislikes u desn’t belive it……….

Shaher ki is daud me daud ke karna kya hai?
Jab yehi jeena hai dosto to phir marna kya hai?

Paheli barish me train late hone ki fikar hai
Bhul gaye bhigte hue tahelna kya hai?

Serials ke kirdaaro ka saara haal hai malum
par maa ka haal puchhne ki fursat kise hai?

Ab ret pe nange pao tahelte kyu nahi?
108 hai channel phir bhi dil bahelte kyu nahi?

Internet ki duniya ke to touch me hai,
lekin pados me kon raheta hai jaante tak nahi.

Mobile, Landline sab ki bharmaar hai,
Lekin jigri dost tak pahuche aise taar kaha hai?

Kab dubte hue suraj ko dekha tha yaad hai?
Kab jaana tha shaam ka woh bahana kya hai?

To Dosto Shaher ki is daud me daud ke karna kya hai
Jab yahi jeena hai to phir Marna kya hai?

“The Dream is not what you sleep in……..,

Dream is the thing which does not let you sleep”