Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school.

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.

The single aim of my life is that every child is: free to be a child, free to grow and develop, free to eat, sleep, see daylight, free to laugh and cry, free to play, free to learn, free to go to school, and above all, free to dream.