(Q1) INTERVIEWER: First we need to ask whether we have your permission to tape record.

(A2a) AHMED QASIM: Yes, you have my permission. He'll go with anything I say.

(Q2) INTERVIEWER: Great, and what's your name?

(A2a) AHMED QASIM: Ahmed Qasim

(Q3) INTERVIEWER: Great, and what's your name?

(A3b) VIVEK KUMAR Vivek Kumar.

(Q4) INTERVIEWER: And both of you live in this village?

(A4a) AHMED QASIM: In Arampur, in the Kasba neighborhood.

(Q5) INTERVIEWER: Ok, in this very place.

(A5b) VIVEK KUMAR: Yes sir.

(Q6) INTERVIEWER: And what are you doing these days?

(A6a) AHMED QASIM: We both study in school.

(Q7) INTERVIEWER: What class do you study in?

(A7a) AHMED QASIM: I study in the sixth grade, in the sixth standard.

(A7b) VIVEK KUMAR: I study in the seventh grade.

(Q8) INTERVIEWER: And you two are close friends?

(A8a) AHMED QASIM: "Yes," yes.

(Q9) INTERVIEWER: Please tell us something about your friendship.

(A9a) AHMED QASIM: We're inseparable. We play cricket together, and whatever work we have to do we do it together. But he does go home at night, and I go to my home. But it's a very deep friendship between us.

(Q10) INTERVIEWER: Please tell us something about how your friendship began.

(A10a) AHMED QASIM: He was in Ranchi and then came here-after that the friendship began.

(Q11) INTERVIEWER: And what do you study in school?

(A11a) AHMED QASIM: At school, we study English, Hindi, Urdu, Geometry and Sanskrit.

(Q12) INTERVIEWER: Ok, and please tell us something about this village.

(A12a) AHMED QASIM: It's a nice village and people here are good too.

(Q13) INTERVIEWER: And what do you think?

(A13b) VIVEK KUMAR: People here are very poor.