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Kaustubh Srikanth lecture at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg (30c3, Dec 27-30, 2013)

It is Children’s Day in India. On page nine of the Times of India, a study reports that every second child is malnourished. Nearly two million children under the age of five die every year from preventable illness as common as diarrhoea. Of those who survive, half are stunted due to a lack of nutrients. The national school dropout rate is 40 per cent. Statistics like these flow like a river permanently in flood. No other country comes close.

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First issue of ’Filhal’ a workers periodical in Hindi published from Delhi. It has articles by Arvind Narayan Das, Dilip [Simeon], Shobha [Sadgopan] and Pratap Singh.

At the heart of the fracas surrounding the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York who promised to pay her housekeeper $9.75 per hour, in compliance with United States labor rules, but instead paid her $3.31 per hour, is India’s dirty secret: One segment of the Indian population routinely exploits another, and the country’s labor laws allow gross mistreatment of domestic workers.