First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.