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A nonprofit in Assam had to shelve plans to expand its elementary school to a high school for children in a forest village.
ST PHOTO: ROHINI MOHAN
NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI - As students solved maths problems in a non-profit school in a forest village in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, the teacher asked a boy where his older sister was.
“Married,” the child said, confirming the 32-year-old teacher’s worst fear about one of his best students.
