Begging is one of the worst social evils. In our country it has become a privilege and a profession. The number of beggars in India is much larger than the total of all the beggars in the world. Our heads hang down in shame when the Westerners say in a hateful manner that “India is a land of beggars”. Beggars are found through out India, in villages and towns, in cities and metros. Like the God Almighty they seem to be omnipresent. Their favourite haunts are roads, crossings, footpaths, bus-stands, railway stations, trains, marketplaces, and temples, religious or festival fairs. They follow people close at their heels and keep pestering them till they give them some coins out of a sense of sheer disgust and helplessness. The religious beggars cluster round pilgrim centers. The crippled and disabled beggars remain lying on road sides arousing sympathy of the passer-by making all kinds of pitiful gesture. There are beggars who are quite stout and able-bodied. Begging is a profession for them. Even children of the professional begging families are involved in this profession with proper skills and techniques to draw people’s sympathy, to cheat them and to earn by this nasty mean. Hence, begging in modern India has developed into an art and a fully-fledged profession. Government should make laws for abolishing this evil practice.