"I was hungry... I picked up two rotis and said, 'What's the point of it?'": A woman who returned to Bhopal from Dubai said that she cried for many days, wondering how she would get out of captivity.

I was very hungry that day. There was food in front of me. I picked up two rotis (Indian flatbread). Just then, a woman present there noticed me. She started asking if the roti belonged to her father. As soon as she said this, my hands stopped. I put the rotis back down. Those hurtful words that the woman spoke, perhaps they were just about two rotis for her. But for me, they became a mirror of my entire life. The days I spent in Dubai, where I had gone to earn money, were like this. Despite being hungry, I was full...