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Bonded Labor
Oct 11 2009, Shikha Garg

It was a usual day for Rohan; a nine year old boy belonging to a lower middle class Indian family living in a small town in Madhya Pradesh. A boy with lots of sparkling dreams in his eyes… till he lost his father last year. His father wanted him to.

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