Mumbai (AFP) - The nine-year-old
boy dressed in blue lay listlessly on the pavement in the scorching
Mumbai summer afternoon, his ankle tethered with rope to a bus stop,
unheeded by pedestrians strolling past.
Lakhan Kale
cannot hear or speak and suffers from cerebral palsy and epilepsy, so
his grandmother and carer tied him up to keep him safe while she went to
work, selling toys and flower garlands on the city's roadsides.
"What
else can I do? He can't talk, so how will he tell anyone if he gets
lost?" said homeless Sakhubai Kale, 66, who raised Lakhan on the street
by the bus stop shaded by the hanging roots of a banyan tree.
Lakhan's father died several years ago and his mother walked out on the family, his grandmother told
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