India's brisk trade in child slaves...

Thousands of children are bought and sold in India every day, far from the gaze of British tabloids — and for a lot less than £200,000. 

Take the case of Monisha, 11, whom The Times met last year. When she was 7 her impoverished father sold her for about £150 and she became one of the estimated 15 million child slaves in India. 

Monisha works for 12 hours every day in a dark, filthy fabric factory in Salem, an industrial city in the state of Tamil Nadu. She cleans looms that produce the inexpensive yarn often used to produce cheap garments for British high streets. “I have bad headaches all the time,” she said. “The noise never stops.” More...

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