Chandrajit Mitra

A group of children from the Shaktimaan group pose together in a slum in Kolkata, India, convincing child dropouts to go back to school.

Child ‘superheroes’ free children from child labor and marriage

Culture

A group of 15 kids, mostly former dropouts themselves, fan out across Kolkata’s slums to free children like themselves from the constraints of child labor and child marriages — by getting them back in school.