Wow, those kids are impressive for so many reasons! Like you said " I admired the fact that these kids in spite of been underprivileged choose to work hard to earn their pocket money." I admire that too. And the fact that they knew so much Hindu culture despite being Muslim.
I never heard of Hampi, I need to look it up on the map. I didn't get to explore India near as much as I wanted to.
India is really vast , It really takes a while to see the whole place.
Hampi is in the northern part of Karnataka, pretty close to Maharastra.