These are the bonded child laborers of India. This report is about them. “Bonded child labor” refers to the phenomenon of children working in conditions of servitude in order to pay off a debt.

CHENNAI: A 17-year-old girl from Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh and two 20-year-old girls, one from AP and another from Poonamallee, who were employed as bonded labourers at a sprawling house at ...