A historic walk with butterflies!

Where have you been all laughing trees?
Oh! it was great walking along with the street children from Butterflies organization. It was the first time they had come out on a walk through the green ridge, identifying stones, trees, birds and the old monuments! Their time otherwise is spent earning a living for survival working at roadside dhaba, public cleaning projects , repair shops and so on. Seventeen children, four personnel from the Butterflies, six B.Ed. history students and two faculty from CIE were out on a march five kilometers and three hours in all. The age group ranged from six to forty!
The walk meandered through The Ashokan pillar ( 3rd century B.C.), Peer Ghaib and Chauburza Mausoleum constructed during the time of Ferozshah Tughlaq (14th century A.D.), Mutiny Memorial and Flagstaff Tower (19th century A.D.) and the Khooni Jheel tucked in the ridge. It sure was a kaleiodoscopic view of the Local History in the northern - most stretches of the ancient Aravalli Hills!
The significance of this peep into the heritage was to explore our sense of identity and the need to conserve and preserve the living history. This experience helped to build a continuum to the present through the children from the street. Interestingly, some more children from the street who joined us on the way, identified themselves as Amir Khan, Shahrukh khan and Kumar Shanu... (all from the hindi cinemaa!)
We thank immensely Mr. Ashish Ranjan and Ruchira for adding a new view to our perspective towards life around us! We'll mail photographs in the next posting! Do share similar experiences with us. Till then keep laughing :-)