Unable to control the tears rolling down his cheeks, Fucha Mahli, 70 reunited with his family in Jharkhand after 35 long years working as a virtual bonded labour across the seas in the former penal ...

HYDERABAD: Purusula Pedda Lingamma, a Chenchu woman who was once a bonded labourer, has risen from a life of servitude to become sarpanch of Ramagiri village in Nagarkurnool district.Her journey — ...

In the shadows of countless industries, hidden from the bustling modern world, lie stories of resilience that defy the shackles of oppression. The tales of bonded labourers are not only tales of ...

What started as a small training programme now ensures financial independence for hundreds like Varalakshmi and T Kaliammal, who in 2003 was a bonded labourer at a rice mill in Tiruvallur, struggling ...

Eight years on, Pune Rout from Odisha’s Nuapada district is unable to forget her ordeal in a brick kiln in Tamil Nadu’s Thiruvallur district, where she was forced to work for 12 hours a day despite ...

Pachaiamma who was rescued after seven years from a rock quarry shares her experience of living in bondage and what life looked like, post her freedom. Pachaiamma was all of 16 when she visited her ...

Responding to an RTI request filed by Outlook, the Ministry of Labour and Employment has said that in the last three financial years, the government has rehabilitated only 2,728 bonded labourers under ...

And these enslaved tribals have been rescued by social activists not officials; they have also not yet been rehabilitated, as government machinery claims it is not capable of reaching remote areas In ...

One of my biggest regrets in life is that I was never able to complete my education. I was in Class 5 when I was forced to go work as a bonded labourer in a house where my father was already working.

The Bombay high court on Wednesday said the state criminal investigation department (CID) should probe the torture and death of an adivasi bonded labourer, reported by a newspaper last month. The ...

The Mandvi police station in Virar East received a case of gang-rape and bonded labour on Thursday. The 28-year-old survivor, a mother of two, belongs to the primitive Katkari tribal community and is ...