HER SCHOOL LIFE

Spoorthi was studying in a government school Dharavi.(A mumbai slum),she was in school but no one were liking her.She was a scholar and had a knowledge about the world.One day,her music teacher called her to sing a song on stage,She was afraid but she sang a song"Ae watan,watan mere,aabaad tu ; Mainjahan rahoon,jahaan main yaad rahe tu........".

She sang melodiously and all her classmates appreciated her . Her teacher gave her a suggestion to join music classes. By hearing her family and the financial background. She started to teach her music classes for free at lunch time at school. Her parents were unaware of music classes. She started to practice daily and the vocal was properly tuned. Her teacher also advised and taught her about girl's freedom, how the world treats her, and also about myths. She was trained in such a way that she gets world knowledge and gets to know what is the world. She took singing as her passion and also wanted to have a singer as a profession. We can see that teacher played an immense role in her life. As every life has adversities even she faces losses and worse situations. Some of her classmates who were from elite classes teased her due to her lifestyle. Her dresses would be old and untidy. The difference in their lifestyle made her suffer insults in classes. They were saying to spoorthi "You are poor and your parents will discriminate you and your brothers will be educated and you will be married soon and be a mother of children at age of 20".She got angry and made her goal to determine and she went home with boosting her confidence to reveal the truth and also about her future education. Her parents were having lunch and she started to talk with them but her father did not talk much with her. Her mother and father were just treating her like a human and not her as a family member. She calls her parents"maa......baba.......Mujhe......"(mother......father....I want) suddenly she stops then her parents ask to say what she wants to speak she starts "baba, maa Mujhe kuch kehna hai.Aaj tak maine aap se ek baat chupai hai,maine sangeeet sikha hai aur mujhe padna hai".(Father,mother I want to say something.Until now I have hidden something,I have been learning music and I also want to read).Hearing her words her father throwed the plate with anger and scolds her mother to teach her limits and the way she should behave.She heard advantages of being literate and also says that she want to be employed.Her mother was filled with anger and said that you are a girl you dont have right to do as you wish.You should take care of home and learn household chores and traditions will not accept your way.She stated to prove her words saying "maa......mujhe......".(Mom.....I want) suddenly her mother raised her hand and slapped to her face and said to change her mind her parents stopped her schooling and she was kept at home.Sobbing all day, she thought about her dream which was impossible.