As the sun rises over the city… boys in rags, barely 8 or 9 years old are picking through the heaps of putrid garbage outside the five-star hotels hoping to find something to satisfy their gnawing hunger.

Their lives revolve around the ‘here and now’ something to eat, some entertainment for their tired eyes, a little space to lay their tired emaciated bodies to sleep.  They may not be here tomorrow. They might surface in some other part of this seething metropolis or after hitch hiking they may turn up in another of the nation’s huge cities.  MORE