Kailash

You were trained as an engineer but you chose to become a social activist, who worked with children. What motivated you to take this step? PREMIUM Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi(Rajesh Kashyap/HT ) Right from my childhood, I was passionate about humanitarian causes. When I was a student — some 60 years ago, my parents wanted me to become an engineer. I belong to a modest family where nobody had studied engineering or medicine. I was good at mathematics and science, so I secured admission. But back in the…

Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s latest book consists of 12 comprehensive accounts of children he has rescued. These gut-wrenching stories have been picked from those of countless nameless, faceless children across India, who routinely become slaves in industries such as stone quarrying, mica mining, carpet weaving, agriculture and in circuses and brick kilns. They are exploited, kidnapped, trafficked, sold, abused and experience horrific incidents of trauma. A child cleaning utensils at a roadside hotel.…