The title ‘Lost Spring’ conveys and pictorises that childhood is like the spring. As everything blooms in this season, in the same way the childhood should bloom but through the poverty of Saheb and Mukesh, we come to know about their stolen childhood. It is being destroyed and dumped in the web of poverty, dirt and dust. They have a strong desire to come out of this poor situation and work hard for this. Let us make a strong determination to realize our dreams.

The elderly woman laments very much over her ‘Karam’, i.e. destiny. She says that during her life time, she has not had a full meal. Instead of hard toil, they loom in perpetual state of poverty. Her cheerless eyes are the ready example and recognition of it. The bangles symbolised her ‘Suhaag.’ The homes of the bangle makers cry for money.

The writer finds two distinct worlds in Firozabad. The fist one belongs to the family of bangle-makers. They are caught in the web of poverty with a stigma of caste they are born in. The other is a vicious circle of the ‘Sahukars,’ the middlemen, the policemen, the politicians and the keepers of the law. They ensure that the exploitation of the bangle makers go unbatted. So they never allow them to organise a cooperative.

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The years of mind numbing and hard toil kill the desire of making new attempts to improve their conditions and the ability to dream. In Firozabad doing any other work needs dare, strong will and determination of the bangle makers want to do anything else, they need dare. The same is very much absent on the part of the younger ones.

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The family of bangle makers were caught in the vicious web of poverty. They are forced to practise their ancestral profession. They remain ill fed and ill clad throughout life. They have no money to switch over their profession.Their hard work is mind numbling. The police does not allow them to form cooperatives.