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STUMBLING   to   MUMBLING Stumbling…  Bubbling … Struggling …  etc etc. Lets have a look at what all happens in life through these similar sounding actions. We all have had numerous tumbles in our life. As toddlers we stand up to walk, STUMBLE and get up to do it all over again. Stumbling, getting up and doing it again are part of learning; whether learning to walk or learning to cycle.                           Bruised shins, knees or elbows are hidden from mothers in the eagerness to learn cycling. And then the sheer joy of cycling. It put wings to us ! As evening draws near, we run out with our cycles to roam the mohalla or park with friends. Doing an errand gave an opportunity to cycle, and we were always ready to do it! We grow up. Schools start with the daily SCRAMBLING to get ready in time with school bag, uniform etc to catch the school bus. It involved scrambling b...

BONDED  EMPLOYEE Human Rights either by an organisation or a nation or the society, want all forms of bonded labour to be abolished. This is desired also. The dark ages and age of slavery is long gone. The bonded labour concept continued with the Jamindari era, and is still in practice in some places. They could be in small factories, brick kilns, tea stalls, dhabas, even homes. Poor people take loans from moneylenders for various occasions, and when unable to payback, the moneylender usually grabs whatever house / property he can. In absence of property / house he takes a family member to work as labourer to pay off the loan. The rate of interest is so high that paying off the loan by this method does not happen in the person’s lifetime. The holder of the bonded person can ‘sell’ the person to another holder and now the bonded person works for the new ‘master’. All the above is well known, and several laws are in place to prevent this happening, punish the perp...