India goes to school

Bhaskar said that on his recent drive from Hyderabad to Pune, he kept seeing a lot of school children everywhere in Karnataka and AP. The same is true of the other states we drove through. You see in every other village children going to school - in proper uniforms. They walk a lot, taking lifts along the way and get to centralized schools. There was this 8th grade boy we spoke to in Rajasthan. He was lazily walking with an old radio - listening to the local news. I asked him, how far the next location was - he told me in a precise number the answer and then I asked him the distance between the next one and the one after that. He responded quite casually with that too. The name and details of the location - all his answers were very precise. It was interesting - the feeling I got was he had all this knowledge and wore it lightly. He was very hireable!