Mangaluru: “We exist through day wage labour. I dream of my daughter studying and getting recognized on a high post. Someone said that children get stolen in Bengaluru, so I did not send them to school. Now, this teacher has come as light into the life of mu daughter!” This is the opinion of Jayamma, […]

Mangaluru: When a couple and their daughter had to shift to another place, they made sure a Kannada-medium school, which has just four students, wouldn’t shut down. The class 2 student and her mother, a daily wage labourer, travel almost 60km, including an hour’s walk, to the Kilpady Lower Primary School in Mulki. “In October, […]