Lights from Darkness
The prose -- "Lights from Darkness" All of us wait all year through for the sights of the golden firecrackers painting the night sky, but does anyone ponder for a moment at all over the fact that thousands of children below the age of fourteen years are employed to enlighten our lives? Apart from that, their lives are in utter darkness, which many men are not aware of. Like the previous years, Nisha, a twelve-year-old girl, is awaiting the day of lights this year also. In utmost delight, she tries to persuade her mother, “ Mom, won't I get crackers this year? ” Actually, she keeps on repeating this every now and then to Mrs. Asha Aggarwal. Sometimes, most of the people overlook the harsh reality. While on one hand, people from the upper classes spend lots of money for making merriment in Diwali, on the other hand, thanks to the benevolent government, people who are the poorest of the poor hardly have the right to dr...