A boy with a difference

Last week while I was passing by the Bhahadur Shah Park near the Jagannath University, I saw a small blind lad playing a flute sweetly. There was a small crowd. On performance of his feat, everyone paid him some money. When he was alone, I got near him and asked him about his whereabouts.
"I don't beg as I think it is an inferior task. I give pleasure to the people by playing flute. If satisfied, they extend their helping hands and thus I somehow eke out a living," said the eight-year-old boy Suren Tonga confidently.
I came to know that he lost his parents in his early days. He came to Dhaka with the help of his next door neighbours. Though he has no eyesight, he can understand where to go and where not. Thus his fight for survival goes on every day.
There are so many blind people in this city begging to scratch their living. But Suren is quite different from them. Time has come to change our outlook on them.

Bipul K Debnath
Dept. of English,
Dhaka College, Dhaka