 "The children work for the community,” Barsati’s brother, Manish, tells me. “We did the same thing when we were their age. But once we grew big, around 13, 14, we had to stop. Who gives big children money? So what could we do? We stopped working, we married, we had children, and our children started to perform. Now we move with them, protect them. When they come of age they’ll stop and be like us. This is our tradition.” Read the fourth installment of my series, The Other India, on the NYT's India Ink site here. |
Photo: Ram, age 7, performs for an audience in Bombay's Colaba Causeway. Copyright Sonia Faleiro, 2011.
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