Machhiwara (Ludhiana): Every day dawn with a new challenge for six siblings, left by their father before their mother died.
Eighteen-year-old Suman and his 13-year-old Pooja brother had taken all the household responsibilities on their shoulders with the absence of their parents.
“We are seven siblings, including me, Pooja, Rani (10), Sunny (9), Raman (7) and five months old Kartik.
Our eldest, Shobha (20) married in Delhi.
After Shoba and my birth, father I Raju Thakur left my mother Bandna Devi, who belonged to Bhagalpur.
He returned after years.
Then Pooja, Sunny and Raman were born, after that he returned and then returned.
Now he left us again and we didn’t know about his whereabouts, ” said Suman, who worked as a waiter in a different house and lived in Raiyaan Machhiwara.
The family has lived in Machhiwara for about 20 years.
“My mother died on July 22 and my father didn’t even come for his last ceremony.
I have to work when my brother is too young,” said Susan, which produced Rs 4,000 and had to pay Rs 1,800 as rent, not including the cost of electricity and water.
Pooja tried to help her sister in her work.
He said his two brothers, Rani and bright, studied at the government school.
Speaking of pain does not have parents around, children go silently.
Two teenagers also treat Kartik’s baby.
Regional residents, Puneet Kaur, have helped children.
“Their father was connected with drugs and left the family.
He will sit still and ask children to work.
Their mother had to work even when he became an anemia of the academia.
The man didn’t even come for his last ceremony and then some Machhiwara residents stepped in,” He said, and appealed to people to advance and help these children.