Four years after a migrant’s death in Kerala, a family in Odisha still bear the burden
At 16, Radura Naik looks aged way beyond his years. But smile is what seems to have deserted Radura’s life for good. Migrant workers alone cannot be blamed for Perumbavoor’s drug menace: ChennithalaHis paltry monthly salary of ₹2,000, together with his mother Babi Naik’s, 35, highly irregular daily wages, barely sustains the family’s hand-to-mouth existence.
- ▪At 16, Radura Naik looks aged way beyond his years.
- ▪But smile is what seems to have deserted Radura’s life for good.
- ▪Migrant workers alone cannot be blamed for Perumbavoor’s drug menace: ChennithalaHis paltry monthly salary of ₹2,000, together with his mother Babi Naik’s, 35, highly irregular daily wages, barely sustains the family’s hand-to-mouth existen
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At 16, Radura Naik looks aged way beyond his years. Ever since his father, Susanta Kumar Naik, 38, was crushed to death at a worksite in Maradu, Kerala, nearly four years ago, fate has dealt Radura — then on the cusp of adolescence — a cruel bargain.When the family was forced to leave their home in Ekalpur village in Odisha’s Kendrapara district and move to Bhubaneswar to survive after losing its sole breadwinner, Radura had to drop out of school after Class VIII and take up a physically demanding full-time job at a two-wheeler garage.Muskan, meaning smile, reads the name of the garage along Cuttack Road. But smile is what seems to have deserted Radura’s life for good.
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