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Cleaners of the city are treated like dirt

By Antara Sengupta

Pourakarmikas are suffering under the contractors. The authorities are violating the Contract labour Act.

Unspoken voices

By Madhurima Bose

Her bright smile could never reveal the history of vicious pain that she had
endured since the tender age of 13. But Rosie is one of a kind!
Her ebullient nature muffles all the pain within. Her journey
is an example for many of those silent house maids
who are still scared to raise their voice
against the unthinkable torture they are forced to go through.

Bangalore’s unrecognized environmentalists

By Tej Sapru

Surya looks no more than 11 years old, though he says he is 14. A mop of hair
that hangs down till just above his eyebrows overwhelms his small face;
his brow is furrowed in a perpetually worried expression.

‘I want to go home. I don’t like Bangalore’

By Krithika B.K

The 12-year-old girl sat deep in thought in the ruins of the demolished slum beside the sprawling Mantri Mall in Malleshwaram.

Garment workers organizing
to demand their rights

By Rashmi Guha Ray

Sitting in the one-room office of Munnade (Women Garment Workers’ Front) and sipping scalding tea from a steel mug, 45-year-old Malika seemed to be steeling herself to narrate her story. Her eyes flitted from one corner of the room to the other, betraying hints of nervousness, but when she spoke, her voice was stoic, seemingly unaffected by the suffering she was recounting