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Vivek at the Poli Sci deparment has a brilliant blog with his articles, on corruption and more. (My fav of his pages: "Naan Fiction," get it - Naan like the bread? naan like roti? naan... you get it)

Please take 5 mins to read his "From Fractions to Millions" because this is what I'm going to dedicate my work life to for the next however many decades. This work and NGO work like Pratham are the hope for my Rainbow Kids to reach their dreams - literacy, life skills, fair chance to have a livelihood, accountable government.

http://viveks.info/from-fractions-to-millions-getting-more-people-to-challenge-corruption-using-mobile-phones

Visited my old headsmitress' family in San Jose (her son Suresh is at HP), played with the one year old (just got her head shaved for her 1 years ceremony). I miss my Rainbow School student's little brothers and sisters so much. It was so fun to "recruit" them every day - I would stop every baby and say, "School ki po?" which means - go to school? And the two year olds would nod yes.

Here was one of my recruits, baby Said Kumar who is not a baby at all anymore - he is 5! He is at the Rainbow School. His daddy built the preschool in 14 days for us.

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