Q&A Slumdog millionaire blog #5 A Thought For The Crippled

     In this chapter A Thought For The Crippled, Ram talks about his story when he was taken to the Delhi Juvenile Home for Boys, in Turkman gate after being picked from the church after Father Timothy's death. In the Delhi Juvenile Home, he also meets up with a boy named Salim who becomes his best friend after being told about his past which was his family being burnt to death by Hindus because they thought that a Muslim family desecrated the idol of the monkey God. They also became best friends because when a character named Mr Gupta, who is the Terror of Turkman Gate who is short, hairy man who chews paan all day and wears two thick gold chains around his neck. One night Mr Gupta called Salim over and tried to sexual harass him, but Ram had a flashback and screamed, waking up everyone in the Juvenile and saving Salim. Then Ram and Salim were taken to a Carnival and were given ten rupees each. At the Carnival they met up with a palmist but had to spend all their rupees to know about their future. The palmist named Panditji predicted that Salim will become a great famous actor but Ram will have a bad future. So Ram took Salim and told Panditji that what he was doing was a waste of time. Although Panditji gave Ram a lucky coin in which many miracles happened afterwards. They were taken to Mumbai by a famous director of Bollywood, Sethji off Gupta for a few rupees. In Mumbai they made a few friends, although most of the kids there were punished because they weren't able to sing and were crippled. At the end of the story they manage to escape into a train away from Goregaon towards the centre of the vast metropolis. Smita turns on the TV and presses play and Prem Kumar (the host of the quiz show) asks Ram, Surdas, the blind poet, was a devotee of which God: a) Ram, b) Krishna, c) Shiva, or d) Brahma? Ram answers b) Krishna and wins ten thousand rupees.