Shunning child labour and finding ways to healing

Shun child labour

Vandita, Class VIII, Infant Jesus Convent School, Mohali

How often does that inward eye,

Ponder upon the dream of a developed nation.

But often do we forget those,

The little working on a wheat plantation.

Yes, I do converse about,

The children working for a day's meal.

Working hard day and night

Just to get a fair deal.

The world does know about,

Does know about their situation.

But do we ever burden ourselves,

To relax them from this complication.

They are our little friends,

Stuck in this work cycle.

Forced for work they have to labour,

For it is the question of survival.

We the privileged ones,

Who are free to study and free to sing.

Let us help our little friends,

An end to child labour we will bring.

An end to child labour can be brought,

Only by education.

So let us educate people,

And form a learned generation.

When each one is educated,

No parent would send the child for work.

Each one would prosper,

Becoming a doctor, engineer or a clerk.

With surroundings filled with positivity,

And the mind free of any fear.

With open wings each child would fly,

Towards a goal he would steer.

Come on my friends think now,

Although tough it may seem.

Together we will achieve it,

A developed INDIA is our dream.

What healing will look like

Bhoomika Chawla, Class X, Bhavan Vidyalaya, Chandigarh

First comes the pain,

Leaving us heartbroken.

But still try to keep

Your heart open,

So that the pain can exit at any time.

This is what healing will look like.

Then comes the glee,

Leaving a look of ecstasy on our faces.

Remember to give your heart a name,

And may that name be Joy.

It has a lot of agony to destroy.

This is what healing will look like.

Smartness of Smartphones

Lukshita Nayyar, Class X, Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh

This age is dominated by the excessive use of a certain identity that always amuses the intellectuals on account of its ironic name. And this honour has been bestowed upon the infamous universally owned gadget- smartphones. This identity has many delusional aspects attached to its identity. Although people support the intelligence and increased efficiency of smartphones, yet their fooled conscience is questioned by their somewhat rational sub-conscience.

Smartphones can be compared to children. They have to be trained, taught, reminded and given orders and when they are old enough to become independent, they are the ones who make us dependent on them with their "knowledge" and "efficiency". This misleading identity makes the thinking section of the society rattle their last four brain cells- are smartphones really making us smart?

In my opinion, smartphones are a medium of increasing our efficiency, however, we have mistaken the use of smartphones from an additional helping hand to the basis of our survival. To escape this rising plague, it is our duty to use smartphones in the way they were originally invented for rather than allowing them to become the reason of the apocalypse of human creativity.