" No Pain No Gain ” appears to be a contradictory statement. But it is very true. The stories of rags to riches of many renowned millionaires are replete with instances of hardship suffered by them from their childhood till their youth. Abraham Lincoln who performed an incredible transition from a ‘log cabin to the White House’ used to study in street lights when he was a child. Akbar the great undergoes incessant suffering of wage continual warfare to retrieve and build up his kingdom. Talking about our times, the great business tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of Reliance Textiles industries began his career as peddler of goods. Literature and history of all countries are replete with stories of young men and women who underwent untold suffering for the sake of personal love, love of one’s country or love of God. “The course of true lover did run smooth” say Rosalind in “As you like it”; the celebrated comedy of Shakespeare. Similarly, Romeo
“Your Waste is Someone’s means of living” Every nook and any corner of the city, one can find rag pickers accumulating trash from different parts of our society. The quantum of garbage created has gone up and much littler urban communities are delivering more trash than some time recently. The landfills are overburdened and appropriate isolation of waste is a crying need. Keeping in mind the issue keeps on heaping on unabated, the general population conveying this weight, the rag pickers whose administrations every one of us depend on for keeping our environment clean, keep on languishing unacknowledged by our government. We all have a dignified job nine to five, but about them; they do not have such a respected job. A rag picker is neither a thief nor a beggar but treated badly our Indian society as the low standard people. Despite performing social service at great risk to their health, for bringing a piece of bread to eat, for a little money for their