This is the first part of the series on child labour used in the Hyderabad bangle industry. Majority of the children were brought from the state of Bihar which is distress driven, by the middlemen. The children were confined to bangle mking factories where they work for 10-14 hrs a day, without having a clue on how much money is being sent to their parents back home. Hyderabad police cracked the case under Operation Smile (Operation Muskaan). I wrote a series of stories on the rescue operation, temporary rehabilitation of children, transferring them to their home state and 20 of the case studies of the children.