Brick Kiln

Freedom after 22 years, Dharua’s family

It took Chandra Dharua, a free man like anyone else in Independent India, 22 years to have a taste of real freedom. Forty-five-year-old Dharua, a migrant labourer from Odisha, and his wife, who were in confinement in an Andhra Pradesh brick kiln, arrived at the Bolangir railway station, about 350 km from Bhubaneswar, on 29th