India circus illegalities: Nepalese and Indian kids trafficked for circuses, in Kolkata

From the archive record

An Indian girl rotates upside down on a horizontal as she performs her routine during a street circus show in Kolkata. This is archival footage from the 1980's. Quite a barbaric practise which has thankfully now, been banned. Meanwhile, a child lies atop another child, and a performer on a bicycle goes around and right over them, to the sound of a drum beat, getting them to pass through in between the two tyres of the bicycle. At one point, he gets his cycle tyre jammed over them and clearly hurts them. The kid starts crying. He must have clearly been badly hurt by the metal rims of the cycle's tyres. The kid is cruelly treated and jerked up from the ground... Circus shows are all about acrobats, jugglers, jokers, stunts and much more. Various items from the programme chart are added or