The above color-coded map from the Wikipedia article on literacy shows India’s true position in the world map of literacy. India and Africa hog most of the orange color in …
Damage once done…
Child labor (in general, child abuse or exploitation) is an extremely complicated subject. The causes are many, so are the effects. It goes well beyond one’s imagination to realize how …
Together We Can Reach The Goal
I think many of my friends have already written about child labour, its cause and effect. What I would wish to focus is the problem of school drop outs and …
Are we sleeping?
When we think of child labor, visions of children working in brick kilns, silk factories, restaurants, farms, tea and coffee estates spring to mind. While those definitely constitute child labor, …
Nano-WAH
Post your nanofiction response as comments!For some samples and typical nanofiction rules, see http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Nanofiction.html साठ बरस से हैं आज़ादHe was crouched in front of dirty shoes, hands toiling away. “Arre …
Show me the money!
Hillary Clinton is running for President, so is Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and a myriad others for the coveted spot. The air is abuzz with campaigns and fundraisers. Millions of …
What stops the ‘state’ ?
India might be shining, the BSE index might be sky rocketing, the GDP might reach an all time high …. What does it mean to a kid who works in …
We don’t live in a vaccuum
Being part of a campaign that brings focus on something as complex as child labor is a hard thing to do. Not because the campaign doesn’t sell. It sells. In …
1 tea spoon ground pepper…
The folks a JugalBandi have written a very nice piece about the Work An Hour campaign. This last part caught my eye – not because it fuels my narcissistic tendencies …
SPOTLIGHT: Kailash Satyarthi
In 1980, electrical engineer Kailash Satyarthi founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement), a grassroots organization dedicated to stopping child labor and child trafficking in India. Last month, Satyarthi …