Education

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50 kilometers south of Mysore, there lies a village.. amongst a huge jungle. well outskirts of a forest to be precise. its not completely isolated from the forest either. there are constant sightings of wild animals like elephants and leopards. not a place for the faint of heart! wonderful place really! if you have forest surrounding one side of the village there is a huge lake on the other side and a national park too! one of the least polluted places around Mysore. the common occupation in this village is mostly farming. 

This is a picture of one of the farmer's daughter. it was around 5 o'clock in the evening. she had just come back from the local school. this was an amazing sight really. I'm pretty she was either doing her homework or practicing what she was taught at school that day. she did this all by herself. no one told her to study. i was right there. Au contraire we city folks need need someone to poke us around to study ey? 

We wont know the true value of the things we get easily or things which are given to us. we take it for granted and tend to misuse them. this was exactly my case back when i was a kid. my mother always used to make me study. i wasn't so good at studies even from the beginning. To be honest i never really understood the education system in my country. most of the topics i studied is a complete waste which i'm pretty sure that i would never use them anywhere in my life.  

Almost all the teenagers don't know anything about taxes, or most of the things related to banking. this is a modern society and they should be teaching about survival in this modern society. do you have any idea how difficult it is for this child to get a descent education? consider this: she is in primary school. after primary comes high school. if there is high school in her village, its well and good. but if its not, she has to travel to a town. which will be a whole new world for her. naturally. and after that comes college. one can only imagine how difficult it will be for her to get basic education. But that's not the point of this photograph. no no no. this photograph speaks for itself. this is a natural photo. i did not tell her to pose. well, this is how it is here. have a good one!

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