Raahi Bachchan

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

I'm sorry..

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

We have no choice but to let our children work to pay off our debts.

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

There has been a boom in the population once again, as agricultural is up. Children are working again.

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

Perhaps we shouldn’t have been so eager as to gain our freedom from Europe.

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

It's been three weeks and all we've been living on is bread and water. People are starting to die.

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

My family can no longer keep a substantial amount of food and clothing, and we're starving. Anybody have something to spare?

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

It turned out that our plan was not well thought out one: there’s an overpopulation of people in India, not enough resources to sustain them

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

We’ve devised a plan in order to pay off the overwhelming debt for our children’s schools and the government: send our own kid’s to work.

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

We had little trading experience with other countries; our economy was weak. Our workers got caught up in the Hindu-Muslim war. We fell.

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

We did not win. When England left, the Hindus and the Muslims broke out in an all-out slaughter-fest. We suppressed our hatred until then.

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

We rioted. We sat still. We listened to the Mahātmā, Gandhi. We tried our very best and we won. Or did we? That's what Grandpa says.

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

Hindus and Muslims hated each other, but everyone hated England more. We fought to free ourselves from their reign.

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

My grandfather was alive when England still had control of our country, we were on a leash. Only trade with England or get out of their way.

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

For generations, my family has been in a pit of poverty and starvation, my name is Raahi. This is my family's story.

[Raahi Bachchan @LabourInIndia]

This twitter account was created for a project on Child Labour in India. Raahi Bachchan is not a real person.