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Sometimes I sit on the sidewalk watching as common citizens make their way from work to play by walking around piles of bricks/woods/cements with the same nonchalance as they circumnavigated child laborers and sleeping peasants, as if they are all equally annoying obstacles in the road. I am not suggesting that everyone is oblivious to the labor exploitation that is happening front and center all around them; on the contrary, many everyday citizens and NGOs decried these abuses. However, in general, there is a systemic acceptance that these bonded and child laborers could be worked to the bone in order to finish their work/constructions/projects.  That is the way things work in India. 
The exploitation is a part of a system that had function in much the same way for centuries, and there isn't any overwhelming social movements that succeeded in altering the system.

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