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What the brief life of Inder Meghwal tells us -Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta

-The Hindu

Not all children are allowed the same ‘length’ of childhood, or even the same experience. Early education for the most disadvantaged children can, and must, change that

What can one say about the brief life of Inder Meghwal, nine years old? The child was a student in a Rajasthan village school. Last month, he reportedly drank water from a pot reserved for an “upper caste” teacher. His teacher beat him so severely that he died in unbearable pain in hospital days later.

Later stories have variously suggested that there was no separate pot for the teacher’s water; that all the children and adults in the school drank water from the same tank in the school compound; that the child had been fighting with a classmate over a book, which is why he got beaten; that he had already had an ear infection for some time when he was beaten; further, even that there was no discrimination at all in the school where little Inder studied, or indeed in the village itself.

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