Chetta, I saw the Education Minister on the news today talking about new textbooks and 'skill development' — and all I could think was, my younger sister spent three hours last night helping our neighbour’s boy with his English homework, because the school changed the medium overnight and the mother can barely read it herself. They tell us to move fast, but who pays for the gap? The coconut oil price goes up every week, and the chutney stays the same — but the syllabus changes like the monsoon wind. Fairness is not in the announcement, chetta; it is in the morning rush when that boy still comes to my stall smiling, and I know his mother has not slept worrying about tomorrow’s class.
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