1. What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come from?

Answer: In the garbage dumps Saheb looks for useful items that can be sold for money .They are like ‘gold’for him. Sometimes he finds a rupees even a ten rupee note in the garbage dumps. Saheb and his family lives in Sinapuri a slum on the periphery of Delhi.Saheb and his family had migrated from Dhaka of Bangladesh.

2. What explanations does the author offer for the children not wearing footwear?

Answer: After seeing children barefoot thronghout the cities and villages the author gives an explanation that it has become a tradition for them to stay barefoot.But for the author it seems lack of money.poverty forces them to walk without footwear as many families cannot afford to buy footwear fo thier children.

3. Is Saheb happy working at the tea stall. Explain?

Answer: No, Saheb is not happy working at the tea stall.
When saheb starts working at the tea stall he is paid 800 rupees and all his meals.Thus food is not problem, but his face has lost the carefree look because he was no longer his own master.As the steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he owned earlier.The bag was his but the canister belongs to the owner of the tea stall.

1. What makes the city of Firozabad famous?
Answer: The city of Firozabad is famous for its bangles.Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles .It is the centre of Indias glass blowing industry.Families have spent generations working around furnaces welding glass,making bangles for the women in tha land .

2. Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.

Answer: Burns, cuts, respiratory diseases, eye problems, body strain, and exposure to toxic chemicals are the main hazards in the glass bangles industry.

3. How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?

Answer: Mukesh’s grandmother thinks that the God-given lineage can never be broken .Her son and grandsons are borns in the caste of bangle makers .They have seen nothing but bangles.Mukehs’s father has tought them what he knows the art of making bangles.But mukehs want to be a motor mechanic.His dream is to go to a garage and learn ,though the garage is far away from his home.