PHOTOS: How a pandemic changed everything for these students

A streetdweller takes it upon herself to homeschool her grandchildren; six year olds learn to take care of themselves—school's out, but there's a lot yet to be learned

Jul 11, 2020, 08:14 IST5 min

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Mumbai: Meena and her grandchildrenMeena has been a street dweller for a couple of years now. When she was a child, her mother left the family, and they began living on the streets. Her fat...

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Gurgaon: Lakshay and Prachi Narang, ages 26 and 24For the Narang siblings, the pandemic dramatically changed what their future would look like. Lakshay completed his Master’s degree in Publ...

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Jharkhand: Students of Bankathi Upgraded Middle SchoolWhen affluent urban schools and colleges have moved classes online, for some students even accessing a smartphone is a dream. To ensure...

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Ahmedabad: Ananya and Aditya Abraham, Age 6For Ananya and Aditya, six-year-old twins, everything changed as soon as the pandemic hit. Their doctor parents would leave them under the supervi...

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Ajmer: Shivani (who goes by her first name only), age 20Twenty-year-old Shivani runs up to the terrace with her phone and notebook. She is in the middle of an online class conducted by NGO ...

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Delhi: A Guruvardhan, 16Every morning by 7.50 am, Guruvardhan would be ready for his school bus to pick him up from Shankar Vihar in Delhi. By 1.15 pm, he would be back home. After finishin...

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Chennai: Miraya and Keahn Dadabhoy, aged 10 and 8The Dadabhoy children took up teaching origami via Instagram during the lockdown. I’m teaching origami to my primary school principal,” says...

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