Saheb gets some job at a tea stall. There the owner pays him Rs. 800/- and all his meals. The narrator now finds him with a tin canister on his way to the milkbooth. But he has lost his carefree look. The canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly on his shoulder. This was his own bag but the canister belongs to his master. Thus Saheb was no longer his own master.

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Mukesh belongs to the family of bangle makers in Firozabad where each family is engaged in bangle making. They live in half built huts and stinky lanes. On asking, Mukesh says,, “I will be a motor mechanic. I will learn to drive a car”. Thus he wants to be his own master.

The family of Mukesh is engaged in making glass bangles of different kinds like the colours of a rainbow. But Mukesh does not want to adopt his family profession. He wants to be a motor mechanic and will learn to drive a car. His dream seems like a mirage to the writer as it is vague and unclear amidst the dust of Firozabad streets.

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Mukesh belongs to the family of bangle-makers. He tells the writer to become a motor mechanic. He will learn to drive a car and does not hesitate to go to the far off garage. He has no desire to live and become the victim of poverty. He says “Jodo anything else means having some lare and the same is flashing on his face.” In this way Mukesh will surely realize his dream.

More than 20,000 children are illegally working in glass-blowing factories in Firozabad. They work around furnaces in high temperatures to weld glasses. They work in dingy cells without light and air. Their eyes are adjusted to “the dark than to the light outside. Many of them become victims of losing their eye-sight before they become adults. They work all day long.

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