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...sigh, fighting the urge to once again spell out V-I-D-Y-A when I call and introduce myself as a reporter. “Okay, Bibyc, I’ll call back in an hour,” responds the voice in laborious broken English...
KUTCH, India — In the rural region of Kutch in Northwest India, 140 kids—preschoolers through 7th graders—travel to Sadhu Vaswani School six days a week to learn math, science, social studies, English, Gujarati, Hindi, and basic computer skills. The school faces daunting challenges as it attempts to educate students from 14 regional villages, some more than 50 kilometers away, with only one school bus to provide transportation over these long distances. Most of the villages where students live did not have electricity until a few years ago, and most children...
...more jobs than people in Kutch, and every child can dream of holding a real government or corporate job, if only they go to school. Thus, no matter the unbearable heat, the demands of the farm at home, or the long distances, 140 kids are eager to learn in English in what was formerly one of the most rural areas of the country...
After the publication of his 2000 memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, critics labeled Dave Eggers the voice of a new generation. English majors adored him. The Pulitzer committee nominated him. But Eggers seemed relatively unaffected by his newfound fame. He launched a successful independent publishing house, McSweeney's, started an after-school tutoring center and went on to write a series of books that ranged from the wholly fictional (You Shall Know Our Velocity) to the almost entirely true (What Is the What). Now he has entered new literary territory with a thoroughly researched, completely factual account...
...asked me for new clothes on Eid that I couldn't provide him. He got angry and left." - Mohammad Amir Qasab, Ajmal's father, in an interview with Pakistan's English-language newspaper Dawn (the Hindu...