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Udupi Zilla Panchayat Model Higher Primary School, Tekkate is a model school which gives most private schools a run for their money |
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The school has large grounds for children to play, most children here are children of farmers from Mugavira, Poojari, Muslim, and Shetty communities |
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Head Mistress Sushila D. Shiralikar with Sudama Shetty, a teacher |
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Children sit around in circles for their mid-day meals |
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Children sat in groups of six at Tekkate - three girls in front, three boys at the back -- the positions would alternate every class |
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Generally, the child sitting in the central position seemed to be the most skilled in the group |
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Some of the games showed a lot of collaborative work, though a few kids tended to dominate: "Trust me, click here" |
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A 6th Std. student plays Brainstorm , an Azim Premji Foundation educational CD |
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An Indian variant of Pac-Man is used for counting exercises |
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This game was used for spelling in Kannada |
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Children found it easier to deal with English language games on the PC than they did working on blackboards |
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Here, a fan in the Head Mistress' office with the donor's name painted on. |
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The school phone, again with a donor name painted on, and a picture of Shivaji |
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A tea seller at the school, a tragic reminder of child labour problems in the slowly urbanizing district |
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Some tips on traffic signals painted onto the school wall |
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A list of donors painted onto the school, with their amounts. Notice all the amounts in odd-numbered figures. |
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Prashant Shetty, a Panchayat member from the Kittu Panchayat rues the lack of a computer center in his panchayat |
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Ramanand Nayak, a chef who once worked in Canada, now is a local landlord and sends his kids to the Tekkate Panchayat school |
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Udupi Zilla Panchayat School at Koteshwara, which was closed due to the rains when we got there |
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The computer center at the Koteshwara school |
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Ms. Geetha, the computer teacher at the school teaches Kondeshwar youth computers on the side. Both her parents were parents coolies. |
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Srikanth, a mechanic at a local auto dealership had taken a computer class to be able to work on accounting packages at his job. |
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Revathi, a recent PUC graduate hopes to get a good job in Mangalore, for which her parents would let her move from Kondeshwar |
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Speacial cages to help protect the computers |
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Cricket anywhere - here in a small village off BC Road |
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Nice place to fly off the bridge. Udupi is known for its beautiful bridges across its many rivers |
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Applications for low-cost housing available at an STD phone booth |
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A typical one-room home on a hilltop |
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The Research Team: Vikram, Bhaskar, Santhosh, Joyojeet |
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Fair warning to potential gamblers at a local hotel |
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Most homes are on levelled dirt paths off the major roads |
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A river undone by the lameness of budget digital photography |
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Still more murder of the landscape through terrible photography |
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Aerial view of Kandapur, Udupi District |
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