THE EMPTY CORNER EVERY SCHOOL SHOULD HAVE Walk through many government and rural schools in India and you’ll find classrooms, a playground, sometimes a computer lab — but no dedicated space where a child can simply sit with a book that isn’t a textbook. Without that space, reading stays something a child does only when…
On paper, India’s schools look reasonably well-equipped. Government data has periodically shown that well over eight in ten schools report having “a library.” In practice, that number often hides a much less impressive reality: a locked steel Amirah in a corner of the staff room, a stack of outdated textbooks that nobody has touched in…