Spotlessly clean uniforms- shirts tucked into their skirts.
Hair neatly combed and plaited- every bow of the ribbon perfectly arranged. Sitting
crosslegged in straight rows on the floor- backs straight, not ever fidgeting
or whispering or passing notes.
I couldn’t help but compare the disciplined group of schoolgirls
from a tiny tribal hamlet, with the unruly mob that inhabits the school my kids
go to. The kids with movie-star hairdos and messy clothes, who unthinkingly
flout every rule in the book!
It is obvious who values education more. Naturally too- they
are the first generation to have access to it.
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I took this photograph in a one-room one-teacher school in a tribal hamlet near Bombay. The photograph taken in April forms a part of my Pictorial Flashback of 2012.
2 comments:
Natasha - I cannot tell you how happy I am that these girls are getting a chance!! I've been reading such wrenching news about that horrible attack and it's got me so upset. So nice to see some hope...
Boy, isn't that the way!! Sigh!!
Merry Christmas
Hugs
SueAnn
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