Khokariya teaches students inside the classroom of a government primary school at Kalyanpur village in India’s Rajasthan state. Photo: MONEY SHARMA/AFP
Sitting together on the classroom floor in Kalyanpur in northwest India, a dozen children aged five and six are trying to identify Hindi words beginning with the “p” sound.
After a spontaneous “papa”, the children unanimously agree on “papaya” – spelt out at the top of their lungs by the entire class.
