From Malnutrition To Rape: Millions In India Suffer The Horrors Of Slavery

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

Every day as Kamla dug through the mud and molded bricks for north Indian kiln, her two hungry children would cry out to her for food. The 200 rupees ($3) she made for producing 1,000 bricks at a time wasn't nearly enough to feed her family, and her daughter died of malnutrition before she turned four.

Kamla's story, told to one of the many charities fighting forced labour in India, is common enough to explain how slavery persists in the country despite rapid development that has helped make India the world's fastest-growing economy.