Youtube hosts a video titled 'lingo kid' which has been doing rounds these days. This video shows a 9 year old kid off the streets of Bombay selling paper fans to tourists from all parts of the world by speaking in over 10 languages ranging from Turkish to German to Chinese. Yes, this does make for an entertaining view. This kid is celebrated in the Youtube forums for his command over languages. While the messages echo the vain sentiments about his "absolute Genius" and "the advanced areas of his amazing human brain", the very fact that this kid has to earn his living and the apparent lack of acknowledgement of this fact makes one think about the enormous talent gone waste, about the acceptance of the lack of education for children as a part of life or rather the rule of life in India. Was this kid's problem that he happens to be in the wrong time and the wrong place? It is these notions of India being the wrong place that needs to be eliminated from the collective conscious of the nation's population. The right for education is some thing every person deserves irrespective of anything else. Education alone cannot solve all the problems the country faces, but it is the best starting point. While we debate on this, what rankles me is what this kid might have become.
the video link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrleqeCAPw&eurl=http://www.orkut.co.in/FavoriteVideos.aspx?uid=16777192906584047623
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