Chapter Three: A home for the disabled

-How did Ram and Salim meet? Ram was sent to the Delhi Children´s Home for Boys, in Turkman Gate after Father Timothy died. He became the leader of the group of boys because he could speak English. One day that Ram was ill in a private room, another bed was brought in. A new boy had arrived, and it was Salim.

 

-Why did they like each other? Because they had a lot in common. They were orphans, with no hope of finding a family and they both loved watching films.

-What was the Delhi’s Children home like? It was crowded, noisy and dirty. The clasrooms had broken desks and the teachers had not taught for years. They would eat in a room with long wooden tables.

 

-Why and how did they escape? A man called Maman came to the house from time to time in order to pick up some good boys to his school. Then he would teach them how to sing Surda´s song. But Ram and Salim discovered that he made the boys blinded, so it was easy to ask for money in the train. They decided to escape before Maman and the others caught them.

-Where are they planning to go?  To Neelima Kumari´s house, because a boy of Maman´s house told them that she was a very good women who often gave him money in order to satisfy Maman requirements.

-How are they going to survive there? Ram offered Nelima to be one of her servants. She accepted and she was considered enough to pay for Salim´s living.