"Poverty is a vicious cycle for refugees, slum dwellers and bangle makers". Discuss in the light of the lesson. (120 - 150 words)

The story is an exposition on the economic inequalities in Indian society which condemns thousands of people to a life of abject poverty, a vicious cycle from which they cannot extricate themselves. Not only are these people born into their penurious state but forced to continue in that state because of the opportunities denied to them. They have been engaged in this trade for generations, working under inhuman conditions with no access to even the basic amenities of life. They are socially stigmatised for their poverty and further exploited by the middlemen, the policemen and the politicians who want to ensure that they are denied a future. They have been rendered incapable of even dreaming for a better future. The title 'lost spring' indicates the loss of opportunities that never came their way.