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India has over 700 languages, but schools teach only in a small number, stunting development
Overlooking the need for education in languages spoken by millions has had adverse effects on children.
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Swapnil Keye Wadde, who speaks Madia Gondi, trying to read a Marathi language textbook at a government primary school in Maharashtra, India, in 2014.
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It was in Midadapalli, a small village set deep in the forested tracts of central India, that I met Swapnil Keye Wadde.
A Madia Gond tribal, he was in a government school in the state of Maharashtra, struggling to read the first lesson from his frayed Marathi language textbook.
