Figure 1.--This Mumbai mother is taking her children to school in the morning. The children wear simple uniforms to a state school. school. Like many Indian schoolboys, these children are going to school barefoot. It would seem that their parents could at least afford flip flops, so their bare feet are not only a matter of poverty. A reader tells us, "During my only trip to India, some years ago, it seemed to me that many Indian people look at bare feet as part of their way of life."

We see Indian students coming and going to school. Most children walk to school, especially primary school children. India has a very youthful population with a very large number of children going to school. Thus Indians streets and roads are full of school children in the morning and afternoon. and around noon as many schools are on half-day schedules. There are many primary schools scattered all over rural India, although the small one-room scholols so common in America are unknown. As a result, most children do not have long distances to walk. There are many schools abnd the countryside is often substantially populated. Mother sometimes walk the younger children to school. Many Indian families are large and thus the older children commonly help the younger children to school.

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