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011184
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Noida, Random House India, 2009.
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48pSky Blue Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Anita Kumari is seven years old and lives in a village in Bihar, tending her goats and watching the other children go to school-until one day, she sneaks into their classroom and takes up teaching them to pay for her schoolbooks and comes up with a bright idea of being a beekeeper.
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011956
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India, Going to school,
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28pPurple Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Anuradha Rathore is studying medicine in Jodhpur Medical College, Jodhpur, Rajasthan. When Anu was young she contracted Polio - and although it affected the way she walks it has not slowed Anu down in any other way. Anu has studied very hard and won a place at medical college under a reservation for students with physical disabilities. Anu failed once at school and she still finds college challenging, but she wants to be a doctor so she can prevent other children from contracting Polio.
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011958
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India, Going to school,
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50pLight Green Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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She was inspired by the famous policewoman Kiran Bedi and decided to take up the same profession. Today, Bhanwari is 24 years old and is in charge of the 'women's desk' in the police station where she works, listening to the problems of women in her district and trying to help as much as she can.
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011950
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India, Going to school,
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32pMulti-colour Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Durga Bai is a health worker with Arth, an organization in the tribal belt of Udaipur District, Rajasthan. Durga travels by herself, by bus, to 22 villages every month and talks to 2,000 women everyday about how to improve their health and the health of their children. In the villages Durga visits, women are not educated and many girls do not go to school. Durga explains health concepts in a local dialect, ensuring that as many children as she meets are vaccinated, visit medical centers and go to school.
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007239
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India, Centre for Environmental Studies for Social Sector, 2007.
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131pBlue Spine
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Includes stories of grit and hope from different states of India.
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Gujarat - Bridging Ghettos
Delhi - Lending dignity
Andhra Pradesh - From the debris of a cyclone
Karnataka - Empowering, enabling, enriching
Orissa - From the eye of a storm
Gujarat - A new dawn in Kutch
Kerala - Washing ashore new dreams
Assam - Healing the victims of ethnic fury
Madhya Pradesh - Spreading the glow of letters
West Bengal - Neither wind nor rain can deter them
J & K - Moulding a generation, building a nation
Uttar Pradesh - Liberating the slaves of a modern world
Tamil Nadu - Rising from the ashes
Annual Report - 2005-2006
History - In the service of the Nation
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| 007657 | 362.8/SOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011945
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India, Going to school,
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32pSky Blue Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Jyoti Rose Tirkey is a newsreader with Doordarshan and a radio presenter with All India Radio. She has her own radio show, and in her free time she sings folk music with an orchestra. Jyoti grew up in a very poor family; her parents did not believe that singing could be a profession. But Jyoti loved to sing, and believed in her talent; she also believed education would give her the confidence to win a job where she could use her skills.
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011949
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India, Going to school,
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32pPink Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Kiran Devi is a junkyard dealer living in Patna, Bihar. She decided to open a junkyard business in her backyard and with a loan from a micro-credit organization called Nidaan, she bought a fleet of rickshaws and hired nine men to work for her. She also sells saris and cow-dung cakes as cooking fuel. Now Kiran's children go to school and Kiran's businesses support the entire family.
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011952
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India, Going to school,
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32pGreen Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Krishna Bagel is a primary school teacher in a Government School in Tikaria Village, Mandla District, Madhya Pradesh. Krishna was the only girl in her village to complete her grade 12 education; all the other girls of her age dropped out of school because the secondary school was too far away to walk to. Krishna grew up knowing she had a lot to prove, and so she volunteered as night school teacher in a Government program to educate adults. Krishna did this job so well, that she was offered the job of the Government School Teacher in her village.
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011955
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India, Going to school,
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32pBlue Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Laxmirani Majhi is an archer who competes in international level competitions for India. When Laxmi was young, her family knew the most important thing was for Laxmi to go to school; many girls in Laxmi's village did not go to school. Today, Laxmi has won so many archery competitions that she has been awarded the position of a cadet by the Tata Sports Academy, in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
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011957
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India, Going to school,
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32pPink Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Madhuri Kumari is an elected village leader in Fakirpuri village, Bahraich District, Uttar Pradesh. When Madhuri was young, she used to walk 6 kilometres to school, through the thick forest, and she walked barefoot because she did not have any shoes. As Madhuri grew, she knew she wanted to stay in school, so she did odd jobs for her neighbours to be able to pay for her school supplies. Madhuri was so helpful to everyone that people soon asked her to be their leader. When Madhuri stood for elections, she won and she was only 21 years old. Since then, Madhuri has been busy building roads, installing a drainage system in the village, and adding new classrooms to her local Government school.
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011953
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India, Going to school,
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32pPink Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Premlata Verma is an accountant in the office of the Superintendent of Police in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh. Premlata is the supervisor of her section and oversees the work of four people - though she is the youngest employee in her section. When Premlata was young, she carried water for her neighbours to earn money to pay for her school supplies and look after her old grandmother and younger sister. Today, she has running water in her home, a Government job and a Masters in Economics.
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011947
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India, Going to school,
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32pBlue Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Roopali Jain 'Ruby' owns a beauty parlour in Guna, Madhya Pradesh. She decided to open her own parlour when her father died, because there was no one else who could look after her family. Ruby, who had always been artistic, decided to study in a parlour to become a beautician and at the same time she studied late into the night to complete grade 12 and then her college degree by correspondence, by taking a loan from a bank to start her business.
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011951
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India, Going to school,
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32pYellow Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Sandhya Sherring is a computer trainer and she owns her own computer institute where she teaches children to use computers. When Sandhya finished school she could not find a job where she lives, so she went to Delhi in search of more opportunities. But in Delhi, everywhere Sandhya went, she was asked if she knew 'computers'. Sandhya returned home and enrolled in a computer institute, and she learned so fast that soon she began to teach other young people about computers. Sandhya then took a loan and opened her own institute in the same town where earlier she had thought there were no opportunities.
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011946
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India, Going to school,
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32pGreen Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Shabnam Aara is a small loans manager in Cashpor a micro-finance organization in Benares, Uttar Pradesh. Cashpor was looking for women who were educated and willing to travel alone to villages to talk to other women. Shabnam took up the challenge, and although she got blisters on her feet from walking so many kilometres, she persisted - Shabnam was able to convince many women to take loans and change their lives.
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011954
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India, Going to school,
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Green Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Suryamani Bhagat is an activist with 'Save the forests of Jharkhand movement'; she is the founder of 'Torang', a tribal rights and cultural center in Kotari Village, Ranchi district in Jharkhand. Suryamani takes children for nature walks so that they can learn how to save trees. She works to save the forest where she lives and preserve her tribal culture with her community.
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011948
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India, Going to school,
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32pPurple Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Tehseen works as a girls' hostel warden in Kasturba Gandhi Girls Hostel (Mahila Samakhya) in Guruwa, Gaya District, Bihar. She looks after 70 girls who have come to stay at the hostel to be able to complete their education. She convinces the girls' parents about the importance of hostel education because she herself struggled to go to school.
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