In Assam, India, 12-year-old Sahidul Ali returned from school with a big grin on his face and headed straight to the office of Universal Team for Social Action and Help (UTSAH), a local NGO. Holding a certificate and wearing a shiny medal around his neck, Ali announced that he’d finished second in a 100 meter race. He was immediately embraced in hugs and cajoled into posing for several phone cameras, including this writer’s. After spending some time narrating his victory, he walked across the road into a narrow lane and across a number of railway tracks. There, in one of the many slums in Guwahati, the largest city in Assam, lay his home.

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