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Children, who do not have access to internet facilities and gadgets, use microscopes as they attend an open-air class outside houses with the walls converted into black boards following the closure of their schools due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, at Joba Attpara village in Paschim Bardhaman district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, September 13, 2021. Picture taken September 13, 2021. Photo :Reuters
South Asia

In remote Indian village, teacher turns walls into blackboards to close school gap

On a recent morning, children wrote on one such wall with chalk and peered into a microscope as Nayak watched over them