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Beggars Belief

Posted: May 4, 2009 Mon 01:31 am     Views: 269    Interacts: 2

In order to make most from the forth coming Common Wealth Games in India, Indian beggars have started learning foreign languages. Residents of Rohni Lal Quarters, a community comprising of 1200 families of beggars, in New Dehli told “on average every beggar earns 150 to 200 rupees every day. But when there are foreign tourists the prospects of earning 500 to 1000 a day are very real.�
In the forth coming Common Wealth Games Indian organisers are expecting more than one hundred thousand tourists. Indian beggars are preparing themselves for this business opportunity by sending their children to language schools. Raju Sans who runs a temporary language school in Rohni Quarters said an eight years old girl who never enrolled in a local school her parents paid hefty fee to enrol her in his language school so that she could perfect the art of begging in foreign language.


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Posted by imranbhatt on Tuesday May 5, 2009 01:47 am
Yes it is and I think it is about time to modify famous saying 'beggars can't be choosers'.
Posted by sunil7090 on Monday May 4, 2009 03:12 pm
begging is also a business for some and not mere compulsion.In mumbai one beggar in lokhandwala complex comes by car,parks his car about akm away and comes to his duty spot in tatterred clothes

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