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Jun 12, 2003

"Should you yield the canyons from the windstorms, you would not see the beauty of their carvings." --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Bringing Schools to the Children

One Sunday morning with two cloth bags "full of fun and magic for children" and an innovative idea, Inderjit Khurana stepped onto the railway platform and began teaching. The idea was extremely simple and remarkably effective: rather than working to get children into the schools, why not just bring the school to them? Within a few months, the 'platform school,' as it became known, had over 100 students sitting within its chalk-drawn boundaries, all absorbed in the song, dance, drama, music and puppetry that was helping make them literate.