Saturday, May 11, 2013

India's missing children: Haunting portraits of 'disappeared' generation...

Nazeem and Rashma Khan have crossed India in a desperate search to find their three-year-old daughter.

Little Tyaba was with her parents at a family friend's wedding reception in Delhi when she disappeared.

Since then, her devoted parents have searched adoption homes, red light districts and orphanages in all of India's major cities but hope is fading.

Their loss is shared by thousands of families, whose children simply vanished.

Their stories have formed a project by photographer Mansi Thapliyal, who met families of missing children to highlight the issue in the country.

This year alone 725 children in Delhi have been reported missing and are untraced, according to data from India's Zonal Integrated Police Network website.

Children's and women's rights have been unprecedented focus in India in recent months, since a Delhi student died in December after being gang-raped on a public bus.

Her death sparked furious protests in the country and cases of child abuse and child rape have since been given greater attention. Photos...

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