Nepal found it hard to resist the thrill of the circus

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Nepal found it hard to resist the thrill of the circus, its breathtaking acts, daring performers and dazzling costumes.When scouts came looking for children to join the big tops in India, she was captivated.
“The circus sounded like a magical place, so I wanted to go, too,” she recalls in a teaser for a documentary about Nepal’s first and only circus, made up of rescued victims of human trafficking.
For decades, Nepali children have been targeted by circus scouts from India where the spectacle, which has been dying in many other countries, still draws crowds.
Often sold by their parents hoping to give them a better life or to escape poverty, many children in the most exploitative circuses are deprived of schooling, forced to learn punishing routines and beaten if they fail, activists say.

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