This is why our school children are protesting...

Extreme poverty compels, children, especially girls, to 'work from home': She says she does not go to school

Photo Story: Thousands of children from humble families in India are deliberately and consistently denied the right to education. They are forced to study in abjectly degrading conditons. After 80 years of Independence, across remote villages and small towns of India, especially in the Hindi heartland, Gen Alpha, inspired by the Gen Z uprising, are now protesting against the abysmal conditions prevailing in sarkari (government) schools. These recent pictures tell you why. (All photos courtesy Instagram / Social Media.)

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