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Answer by Srini Kasturi:

Anyone who is approaching this question as a moral one has no clue about begging in India. Especially anyone who thinks beggars aren’t hard working is patently wrong and ignorant. Begging is a profession with a career just like any other.

Begging is usually an organised industry with begging spots territorially marked across gangs. Have you never wondered why all beggars don’t crowd to the same lucrative high traffic begging spots?

Because begging spots are bid and paid for.

Try this: Become a beggar for a day and find yourself a begging spot. The moment you start, you will be accosted by any number of people, from other beggars to the local mafia to the police, all of whom have an interest in the begging industry that you are trying to enter. You will soon find yourself sucked into a large corporation, put on a commission while the rest of your takings are paid into the organisation. You will start on a low yield begging spot for you to prove yourself and you will work your way up to a better yielding spot.
You might need to do more than just great begging to get a better spot. Because better spots have more uses than just begging, as I explain later.
Why do you think you see the “regulars” in the same spots everyday? That’s because beggars have invested into the location and they will defend it from new entrants. It is a bit like the cop paying his bosses to get deployed at the busier traffic junction where he can make more in bribes from minor traffic offences. Or the more commonly known bribes paid up the organisation in public sector jobs to get into positions with greater corruption income potential.
 
Beggars are paying someone for the continued privilege of begging there, or they are part of a larger mafia run organisation who own the spot, and pay the police to keep it theirs. The police get their share so they don’t bother the beggars anymore. That’s why the police and the beggars coexist at every major traffic junction in a large city in India.

Beggars appeal to your emotional weakness and pity, and are pretty much everywhere around you. These two characteristics make them the perfect cover for organised crime. Want drugs? Guns? Take out a contact on someone? Deal in stolen goods? Beggars are the front office for the mafia that can do all this for you - they’ll do the initial screening, and channel you to the right people if you seem like the right kind of customer.
 
You won’t, for a moment, imagine that those big innocent eyes of the five year old begging at the traffic signal have already seen the underworld that you only read about and watch in films. And that hot dusty traffic junction where he works for that underworld. That’s his office from where he collects alms, gathers street info and watches the other interests of the mafia, such as how the shops around are doing so their protection money levels can be revised appropriately.He’s probably already training younger toddlers to be more effective beggars.
 
Those injuries you see on the beggars, like an amputation, blindness or even tumours? They are inflicted. That woman with a newborn hanging from her breast? That’s not her newborn. It is likely stolen, or the result of a prostitution related pregnancy.
 
We are talking about the most exploited section of society here. And they are exploited because their terrible condition evokes pity, making you part with your change. And your change is the payoff for the exploiters. That, and all the associated business that I’ve described already.
 
When you give alms, you are helping organised crime. Stop!
 
Slumdog Millionaire. It wasn’t just a movie. Think about the blind kid and the passing shot of the little girl with the amputation. And think about Jamal’s brother’s career in crime.