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...Badarpur village, with its dusty, pungent streets and tumbledown tenements, is far removed from the confident affluence of Nehru Place. Inside a tiny, cluttered room lit by a single tube-light, nine girls are waiting for their bhaiyya, - 'older brother' in Hindi. An all-girl class is rare; parents who are unable to afford education for their children usually shelve daughters' education first. According to UN figures, 42 million children between the ages of 6 and 14 are not in school in India. The national literacy rate of girls over seven years is 54%, compared to 75% for boys...
...Badarpur, Iyer is helping his class battle integers and geometry. There are moments of hilarity as the English-educated teacher struggles for the right Hindi terms. Next door, Riya Goenka, another Teach India volunteer and a former banker, is leading a class in spoken English to half a dozen teenagers, all of whom want to be retail or beauty-parlor assistants. This is the India in the dawn - whom economic growth has touched just enough to raise aspirations without providing avenues to fulfill those aspirations. "I believe the single most important factor here will be education," says Iyer...
...Initiated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and spearheaded by the young, dynamic Minister of Health, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, the program has, in just over three years, mobilized more than half a million new community health workers, each known as an ASHA--short for "accredited social health activist," and the Hindi word for hope...
Asani said if he accepts the position as a full professor, he will finally be able to teach a course on Shia Islam, his area of specialization. Until now, he said he was required to split his teaching between instruction in Urdu and Hindi and other courses...
...There is no official population count for Kathputli, but residents estimate there are 2,200 homes, about 70% of which are occupied by a collection of street-performer castes, each defined by their talent. The colony, named for the Hindi word for wooden puppet, began a half century ago with seven tents housing an extended family of puppeteers - gypsies from Rajasthan. Next came the magicians, nomadic Muslims from South India. They were joined, in the 1970s, by acrobats from Mumbai. Today, the children and grandchildren of these pioneers work New Delhi's weddings, birthday parties and the five-star hotel...