A recent report of the United Nations on the state of the world’s children states in no uncertain terms that only a good and just present for the nation’s children can ensure its good and bright future. That India has to learn from this homily is all to evident; it took the WTO to coerce us into eliminating child labour from the carpet and related handloom industry in the country. Millions of children continue to toil in the glass infernos of Ferozabad and ...