'While investigating child labor in India last month for a book, I found myself in the northern state of Bihar, an established source of children for trafficking networks.
Here, alongside the expected stories of abduction, I heard of another unexpected and heartbreaking path to servitude. Children as young as 10 had begun to directly offer themselves to traffickers because they could no longer go hungry.'
Do read my new Op-Ed in The IHT, September 6, 2011Photo: Arun Kumar, 14 (left) with a friend in Khagaria, Munger, Bihar. Names have been changed. Credit: Sonia Faleiro
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Its really a shame for a country like India with all its intellect and policy making, we still can't break this vicious circle. Young lads like Kumar will keep returning to the old mill until we eradicate the roots of this evil.
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