“Humko angrezi nahi aati…agar baat kariyega toh Hindi mein kariyega”.
She sets her preferences, right in the beginning. Pooja, 25, comes from Surouli, a village in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh.
“My father worked with Sahara as an agent, however, after Subrota Roy was put behind the bars, no one dealt with Sahara offerings. My mother is a home maker. We are 5 siblings – 2 sisters got married, one brother is an ITI student another works as RDBL agent”
We talk about her village, her life and I ask her about her education background.
“B.A. kiye hai Sanskrit se”, she says faintly.
“Par nakal karke. I can lie to you but it wouldn’t benefit either of us. You ask me to read one thing, I won’t be able to, toh kya matlab hai”, she adds after a brief pause, bringing back her concentration from outside the train window to…
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Shruti Chaturvedi 