Five years after the atrocities of Gujarat, the state’s education system is taking youngsters backward By Deepa A In a tiny room with blue walls full of charts about birds, fruits and vegetables, 10-year-old Tamanna sits on the floor, drawing on sheets of paper strategically folded to resemble greeting cards. The room, on the first [...]
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Studies in Isolation: The Schools of Ahmedabad
Posted in children, Education, Gujarat on April 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tell Us, Gujarat: Who’s to Return Us Our Future?
Posted in children, Education, Gujarat on March 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
2002’s season of hate has left a generation of Muslim girls with little prospect but the dead end of the ghetto. Deepa A reports On a December afternoon, Zahirabanu Yunisbhai sits on a couple of dusty, broken bricks outside her one-room house in Millat Colony, Ahmedabad, helping her sister scrub the vessels spread on [...]
On Their Own
Posted in children, Education, Gujarat on February 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Gujarat state government appears to have very little planned by way of support for the education of Muslim children. What’s more, the education department appears to be standing in the way of the embattled community’s attempts to help itself By Deepa A It’s difficult to imagine that the bare red bricks and the jutting [...]
Still Suffering, Five Years After
Posted in children, Education, Gujarat, mental health on January 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Five years have passed after the riots, five years in which saplings have become trees and blueprints have taken the shape of buildings. But time seems to have stopped for many families and children who suffered or witnessed atrocities during the 2002 riots, altering their dreams and hopes in unlikely, distressing ways. Deepa A has [...]
