In a dusty tenement in a crowded neighbourhood in the Indian city of Kanpur, a young man takes out a bright yellow sari from a shopping bag and presents it to his mother.
"Do you like it?" he asks her. "Yes," is her reply.
It is an innocuous scene, except that the young man, Kanhaiya, has waited a long time to give his mother a gift.
Nineteen years ago, his mother Vijai Kumari was convicted of murder - wrongfully she claimed.
She was granted bail on appeal but she did not have the 10,000 rupees ($180; £119) she needed to post bail. Her husband abandoned her and no-one else came forward to help her.
"I thought I'd die in prison," she says. "They told me in there that no one ever gets out."
She was pregnant when she went to jail. Four months later, Kanhaiya was born. Full story...
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"Do you like it?" he asks her. "Yes," is her reply.
It is an innocuous scene, except that the young man, Kanhaiya, has waited a long time to give his mother a gift.
Nineteen years ago, his mother Vijai Kumari was convicted of murder - wrongfully she claimed.
She was granted bail on appeal but she did not have the 10,000 rupees ($180; £119) she needed to post bail. Her husband abandoned her and no-one else came forward to help her.
"I thought I'd die in prison," she says. "They told me in there that no one ever gets out."
She was pregnant when she went to jail. Four months later, Kanhaiya was born. Full story...
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