A beggar's life
A few days ago you read in the news that a beggar died and he had 8 lakhs of money. Image Credit
Movies also have a lot of humorous scenes about beggars. The movie 'Pichaikaran' came about beggars and showed their other life.
A beggar's life
Once (Shatabdi) while traveling in a train, a man collected all the garbage below and asked the passengers for alms.
Many people gave at least 10 rupees because he was a centenarian and he did a job and begged.
He would have earned approximately ₹100 – 150 from that one box alone. If you continue like this you can easily earn ₹2000 per day.
Begging in Singapore
There was a documentary on Singapore's 'Channel 5' TV that there was a case of people who had brought visas from China and begged in Singapore and returned home.
Singaporeans are more likely to beg from poor-looking beggars than those hoping for help by singing a song or selling something.
One of the reasons is that it is easier to beg money than to buy something unnecessarily to help others.
North Indians
North Indians are not only coming to Tamil Nadu to look for work, the number of people coming to beg has also increased.
Nowadays we can see a lot of beggars from northern states, visa is not required here 🙂 .
Blackmailing children, boys and girls into begging for money is unique.
Unanswered questions
Although this is one side, I always have questions about their lives.
What will these (beggars of our village) do with the money they earn?
Will you beg all your life? If so, what do they get out of it besides money?
A respectable life cannot be lived because others have no value.
A gang of women are constantly begging in our office area and I myself have been seeing it for almost four years.
They continue in the same position.
They are always the same with the same dirty clothes, starved eyes, weak body, smelly clothes and flat head.
Even though he claims to have another life like in the movie Pichaikaran, in that movie too someone goes and eats only at the wedding.
So, what kind of life do these people live even though they have a lot of money?!
No matter how much money he keeps, he is eventually identified as a beggar. Social status is 0% itself!
It was reported in the news that when the family of a beggar who died with lakhs of money was found and tried to hand over the money, they refused to buy it.
It is said that 'because this job is good, you can survive by begging', but it is not easy to live the life of a beggar even if you have money.
A film comedy can fit if it wants to.
Perhaps they think that living by begging is better than being humiliated, neglected, chased and abandoned by the family!
Recently, when I read a news about a beggar like this, I thought I should write this 🙂 .