Shankar is six years old. He is expected to handle the heavy instruments used to cut knots in each carpet. many many his thumbs and fingers were cut when the cutter slips. He cries for his motheybut but receives a beating instead. He is not taken to a hospital or given any medicine instead his amster fills the cut with match stick powder and then lights it, causing the skin and blood to bond. Again he cries for his mother and again he receives a beating. I wish that I could tell you that Shankar's story is unique but unfortunately it is not.The United Nations Labour Agency estimates that there are 250 million children from ages 5 - 14 employe....

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