"Born in 1954 in the historical town of vidisha, madhya pradesh in central india, kailash satyarthi is synonymous with the crusade against child slavery. In 1980, when he gave up a promising career as an electrical engineer to campaign against servitude in India, child slavery was a non-issue. In fact, phrases like 'child servitude', 'child bonded labor' were neither in usage nor easily found in political debates, academic research, judicial discourses or social agendas. Perhaps, his biggest contribution has been that he changed the fixed mind-set of opinion makers from complete denial of the existence of child servitude into acknowledgment of it as a major national and international issue."