Status Updates From The End of Karma: Hope and ...

“To be clear, the law prohibits child labor. The law prohibits trafficking.
The law is often disregarded.”

“Supriya told me about the time her daughter was at her parents’ house in Delhi, when the power went out in the afternoon—and stayed out for hours. The child, then eight years old, was shocked -
What do you mean there’s no electricity ??”

“He had come up with a catchy name for his center: English Speaking Course and Personality Enhancement. ESCAPE for short.
English of course has nothing to do with caste, except that those who don’t speak English are increasingly seen as outcastes—”

“We squeeze into his family’s apartment, which is across the road from a mental asylum. Only a field of snow separates the hubris on our side from the madness on theirs.”