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Growing up on construction sites in India

Sonia's mother, left, and two other women work at a construction site in Dharamsala, India.
KEIICHIRO ASAHARA, Nikkei staff photographer | India

DHARAMSALA, India -- I was walking past a construction site in the small town of Dharamsala in northern India when a question occurred to me: Why are there so many children here?

I stopped, took a step back and looked around. 

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