Schools of a Different Thought

It’s 5 in the morning in Amjhor, a village situated in the heart of a naxal belt in Jharkhand. A little girl and her brother wake up, looking forward to another day. They brush their teeth and go for a bath, the whole time humming a ‘bhajan’ they learnt in school. Carefully oiling their hair, the mother is happy to send them off to school. Dressed in white uniforms with good shoes that will last them the whole year, the brother and sister leave for school. It’s a five kilometer walk through the village and the jungle, which they take every day.

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