I wish I was a boy...

Canon Powershot S3IS
Manali

Local kids at Manali. Boys have so much fun in life. They are truly freebirds from childhood. They can and are allowed to do so many mischievous things which girls don't or can't do. No pressure of looking pretty to find a suitable groom. Carefree life, skinned knees and scars from play, all are just a part of the life for a boy.

I wish I was a boy.

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United Colors of India

Ponta Sahib
Himachal pradesh
Nikon D70

I don't remember their names now. But the dark kid was such a docile and innocent kid. And the fairer one was such a talkative and clever one :P......they usually spend their after school hours on the streets outside the Gurudwara at Ponta Sahib.

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Unnoticed

Haridwar
Nikon D70

Street Child
by Regis (Reg) Auffray

Stolen childhood is more than a crime...

abandoned child
silently swept along
a current of callous human race
between shabby buildings
and filthy hotels
hovels of the needy
and the dispossessed oblivious
now soulless empty eyes unseeing
soiled windswept streets
unfeeling lost emotions
unheeding sirens
heralding another night
of violence and death
numb ravished soul
of stolen youth
too weary to care

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