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The 75-year old Dakshin Kannada Zilla Parishad School at Punjalakatte, is attached to a High School that most of its students end up at. |
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Punjalakatte Headmaster Dharmappa Gowda teaches Math at the 75-year old government school |
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The well-lit staff room at Punjalakatte, a rarety in such schools |
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M is an expert tailor and offered me a shirt in three days. K, an orphan, is respected by peers as a prodigious bike racer on the PC |
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Miss K. child of Tamil migrant labourers, stands in front of a landscape drawing and tries really hard not to blush or grin |
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Teachers claim this Punjalkatte young man is distracted in his classes, but remarkably good at the computer class |
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Gandhi and his Gita watch over a telephone protected by a little towel at Punjalakatte |
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Punjalakatte children play Kho Kho at a large playground city kids would stare at with envy |
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A cow feasts behind the computer studies board at Punjalakatte |
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A sign on the walls at Punjalakatte encourages girls to take up careers - as policewomen! |
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Dhananjay Nayak, a grad of the school, went on to get a college degree and now works at a restaurant. Most Punjalakatte graduates end up staying here. |
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The Zilla Parishad Village Primary School at Uli, where most of the students are children of casual labourers |
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Mr. Srikanth is the young Head Teacher at the Uli Zilla Parishad School is beleaguered by fund crunches from warring within the local panchayat |
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An interesting change image - modern Kannada icons at the school at the Uli Zilla Parishad School. |
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Uli has kept logs of the parents coming for Saturday sessions for "computer skill" demos by their children. Many are illiterate. |
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A sheet on the wall at the computer class at Uli lists out the tests administered this year to ths students from various classes |
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Four girls sit in the computer center of the school for interviews. The village of Uli, and thus the computer center, has had no power for a week |
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A group of Uli girls share umbrellas for their wet journey home |
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Ducking the rough rains of Uli, a group of girls wait after the day is over to go home. |
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Paddy fields, littered all along the roads connecting the schools |
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A coastal home, mostly cemented, tiled roof homes even among the poorest |
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A common sight in the lush Dakshin Kannada countryside |
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Rubber estates in the Hills from Madikeri to Mangalore |
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