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This is an old article, but an interesting read nonetheless. I found this article while digging in the net about the exploitation meted out to the perpetualy poor by the nouveau rich and rich people in urban areas and particularly the metros. Just like prostitution, the girl is sold to a family (in place of a brothel), she is overworked, and her pay (if there is any) is being taken away by the seller.......
The tea pickers sold into slavery
One day Somila was living on an Assam plantation. The next, she had been sold into slavery hundreds of miles from home. Gethin Chamberlain joins the race to save her – and uncovers a flourishing slave trade that begins with the cost of tea
Slim pickings: tea workers in Assam. Teenage girls are known to have been trafficked from this plantation. Photograph: Gethin Chamberlain for the Observer
A car, speeding through the crowded streets of Delhi. Inside, a phone is ringing. The voice on the line is that of a ghost, a girl who vanished into thin air three years ago.
Somila was 16 when the traffickers lured her from the poverty of her home on the tea plantation in Assam with promises of a better life. Now she is a slave, trapped and terrified, lost in a city of 16 million people.
Crammed into the car are people determined to find her and set her free. They crane to hear her voice on the tinny speaker. Help me, she says. Her owners are threatening to sell her into prostitution in Mumbai. She is afraid she will be lost for ever.
Help me. Find me. There is not a second to lose..........
read the rest at The tea pickers sold into slavery | Global development | The Observer
The tea pickers sold into slavery
One day Somila was living on an Assam plantation. The next, she had been sold into slavery hundreds of miles from home. Gethin Chamberlain joins the race to save her – and uncovers a flourishing slave trade that begins with the cost of tea
- Gethin Chamberlain
- The Observer, Sunday 2 March 2014
Slim pickings: tea workers in Assam. Teenage girls are known to have been trafficked from this plantation. Photograph: Gethin Chamberlain for the Observer
A car, speeding through the crowded streets of Delhi. Inside, a phone is ringing. The voice on the line is that of a ghost, a girl who vanished into thin air three years ago.
Somila was 16 when the traffickers lured her from the poverty of her home on the tea plantation in Assam with promises of a better life. Now she is a slave, trapped and terrified, lost in a city of 16 million people.
Crammed into the car are people determined to find her and set her free. They crane to hear her voice on the tinny speaker. Help me, she says. Her owners are threatening to sell her into prostitution in Mumbai. She is afraid she will be lost for ever.
Help me. Find me. There is not a second to lose..........
read the rest at The tea pickers sold into slavery | Global development | The Observer
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...that din't seem to have prevented you from posting on the topic of tea growers in India 
........... I thought you were a good Samaritan with a bleeding heart. 
