"Whenever we need money for clothes we ask our mothers,” he says. “Even though they wish we wouldn’t wear such low pants! But we like to stay in fashion. Before this, the style was for “half-pant” (three-quarter length pants) and white running sneakers. We wore those too!”
Children below the age of eighteen make up an estimated 40 per cent of India’s 1.2 billion people. Of this number, 35 million, or around 7 percent, are children in name only. They work an average of eight hours to twelve hours a day, performing adult jobs in sectors from agriculture to manufacturing. They are always paid below the market rate.'
Photo: Chetan Raj Gond and Sarju Raj Gond, 17. Copyright: Sonia Faleiro, 2011
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