Thursday, August 21, 2014

Children in No Mans Land






Children have always ended up the foremost victims of cross border terrorism and war to engulf nations across the globe, the recent violence on the Gaza strip notwithstanding.”
While children lose their families and homes due to conflict, the poverty that follows the violence eventually leads to thousands of children ending up orphans, often being forced to seek survival in lands where caste, creed, and colour dominate societal divisions. Their innocent minds succumb to the above diktats, eventually forfeiting childhood. The displacement of children through border conflict needs to be addressed on humanitarian grounds by one and all.
Displaced: Children in No Mans’ Land is an effort to highlight this vulnerability. A nude boy looks across a vast expanse of rich green fields trying to find a meaningful relationship, and a conversation with a lone scarecrow in war stricken territory brings forth the innocence of the mind of the child (despite the bleak surroundings) while he continues to explore hope and acceptance.
Like the scarecrow that stands guard over an empty field, the orphan boy too wants to survey the fields as his own; he wants to be a farmer with the sole intention of seeking solace on the empty patch of land calling it his very own home someday.