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Life in a Brick Kiln for Young Kayal Sahoo


Sindhu Menon

Kayal Sahoo, a 20 year-old, beautiful village girl, lives contented in a brick kiln in Ranga Reddy district, Andhra Pradesh. Kayal’s husband, Ashok Sahoo, works as a loader at the kiln. Kayal is a homemaker, and has never worked as a labourer in the brick kiln.

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Vasant, the 15-Year-Old Loader


Sindhu Menon

Fifteen-year-old Vasant from Balangir district of Odisha has spent most of his life in brick kilns in various districts in Andhra Pradesh.

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K Hemalata: Determined to Challenge the Male Paradigm


Sindhu Menon

The British novelist E.M. Forster wrote, “The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society were eternal. Both assumptions must be accepted if we are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.”

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Amarjeet Kaur: The Trade Unionist Who Broke Gender Barriers


Sindhu Menon

On 26 January 1966, 80 students from the Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Shakurpur, Delhi, had to participate in the Republic Day parade at Rajpath, New Delhi. The students underwent rigorous training for more than a month. A school inspection was held on 30 January.

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