Two early morning mishaps - in Kanpur and Basti - involving school vans carrying children, marked the start of the week. For representation only In Kanpur, a roadways bus hit a school van carrying children, causing the van to overturn and fall into a roadside ditch. Meanwhile, in Basti, at least 17 students of an English medium school near Basti …
Former students at a school set up for children of survivors of the 1984 disaster recall their families’ struggles in the aftermath. Oriya Basti school – also fondly known as the “barefoot school” because many of its children attend without slippers or shoes, as their families cannot afford to buy them – is one chink of light to have come …
