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The main entrance to the Government Higher Primary School at Maragodu, Madikeri Taluk |
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Looking into a Class I classroom at Maragodu, where children sit with legs folded on the floor, and are given a small board to practice writing on |
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The walls are lined with the multiplication tables |
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Kids were asked to prepare for an interview from the city people -- and instantly they formed a circle holding hands, trying desperately not to grin |
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Mahalaxmi B.C. (Kannada teacher) and Padmavathi P.M. (Maths and Science teacher) both double up in each other's subjects at Maragodu |
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H.D. Savithri, the head teacher of the Maragodu Higher Primary School |
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B.A, a star student at Maragodu, spends ten rupees a weekend on bike racing games |
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G., is not given pocket money for games, she nor her four sisters are ever encouraged to handle money |
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Ms. Preetha, the computer teacher at Maragodu, oversees a group of four children playing Brainstorm, a quiz game |
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The toilet is a few yards out behind the school at Maragodu |
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The well that gives water for non-drinking purposes |
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The bell, rung once at the end of each teaching period |
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Arjun gets his words of wisdom from teacher Krishna as they head out into war |
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Hanuman - another role model for Maragodu's school children |
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Classic Indian hospitality -- giving away childrens' midday meal scheme food to the guests at Maragodu! |
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Second School of the day - Arecaud Higher Primary is located in a village which is almost entirely owned by just four planter families |
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In tardy insult to Manmohan, Atal still adorns the walls of the school office at Arecaud |
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Short of picture frames, badminton raquets were used to frame up national heroes |
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Class V in the second school - almost all the students here are children of the local coolie labourers |
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H.'s current concern is dealing with ABCD in his Std. V English class |
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Shy Std. 5 girl F. likes jilebis and walks 30 minutes to school everyday |
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Field Marshall Cariappa, a Coorgi military superstar is a local role model alongside goddess Durga |
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This Maragodu hostel houses and feeds poor girls from remote areas. The water heater and bulbs use current from a solar panel on the roof |
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A packed room has large bunkbeds that fit three girls on each mattress - 24 in the room. In the monsoons, the clothes dry in here |
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The entrance into an Arecaud coolie camp for day labourers at the coffee estates nearby. Each tiled-roof building has 4-6 homes |
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The wood outside the homes is waste wood left over from logging, used at home for cooking and other daily purposes |
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Muniandi and his mother Meenachi are migrants from Tamil Nadu, who work at the estate, Muniandi's wife is expecting their second child |
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Mallesh and Prema's daughter J. is the first from the extended family to use a computer. Each home as two rooms - a front room, and a kitchen area right behind it. |
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All the kids from the camp study at the school, located about half a kilometer away |
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