A student making notes as he attends an online class at his home in Ahmedabad, India. Student activists in Kerala took to the streets to protest Devika Balakrishnan's death, which has highlighted the inequalities of the pandemic lockdown, with pupils in poor, rural areas far less likely to be able to learn online. — Reuters
KOCHI: Students protested in southern India on June 2 after the suicide of a teenage girl who was unable to attend online classes because she did not have a television or smartphone.
Schools have been shut across India since the country locked down its 1.3 billion people on March 25 to curb the spread of the coronavirus, leaving millions of children whose families cannot afford expensive devices with no access to education.
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