the contact points were opened on 1st July. The summer vacations are now over. On 1st, Sana informed me that I'll go to the field the next day. I expected the next day that I'll go to the same contact point in Chandni Chowk, Hathi Park. Either that or I'll go to Okhla Mandi, a contact point nearer to Jamia Milia Islamia. Hadi was definitely going to go there, I knew that much. On the morning of 2nd July I had called my supervisor to ask where I'd have to go. It was Hathi Park near Chandni Chowk metro. I reached the contact point and saw a couple of familiar faces of the children, but Sonam arrived 15 minutes later. Rajan, an 11th class kid, laid down mats, and only after Rohit, a 6th-class child of the contact point did the sweeping of the constructed elevated shade. A very unenthusiastic Rohit had swept the floor, but working cooperatively to take care of the place, equipment, and each other was normal. At least its promoted to do that, to imbibe a sense of ownership.

Rajan sat down under the plastic conical shade, on the weaved plastic straw mats. He took out his sketching book and started working on the Beerus sketch that he made. He showed me completed Goku sketches and Jujitsu Kaisen sketches too. All of them were good, and did not feel amateurish. As I don't watch Dragon Ball or any anime other than Ghibli productions at the moment, I didn't and couldn't comment on the characters themselves but I liked the sketches, so I complimented that aspect. His loose uncertain-mouthed face took the shape of a smiling face, one with energy and pride. The other children were still playing on the slides while Sonam at the particular moment was involved with the mother and the documents of Vishnoo, a 12 year child who didn't know how to study in hindi, read or write. According to his age he would have been in 6th class. But his study level was not even up to the 5th-class level. The discussion with the mother was about the admission of her child.