An alternative vision for the country's young women
India, Sept. 18 -- Thirteen-year-old Bhavna Pandey from Hyderabad aspires to be an Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer. Nothing extraordinary about that ambition except for Pandey's circumstances: she studies at the St Albert High School, described as a "budget private school" by its principal, B Sunitha Kumari. Most of the students' parents are daily wage earners, or blue collar workers like Pandey's father, who is a driver. During the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the school struggled to get funds to deliver groceries to the families, who were hard-hit by the lockdown. Yet for Pandey, it was the pandemic that kindled her ambition....
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