This is a bathroom made up of palm leaves, used only for bathing without any water outlet
Are the rights mentioned in the Constitution designed solely for the elite sections of society? What about the country’s poor? Do they not have a right to education, dignity, sanitation and health? While exploring the undeveloped villages of Thiruvallur in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, I wondered how insecure is the future of children, who don’t have proper facilities for education. Then I sensed a pair of eyes staring at me from a distance. I turned around to find a little boy, whose name I learned later was Vinod, standing at a distance playing with a tyre tube and a stick, probably waiting for someone to pay attention to his antics.
Curious Vinod with his tyre toy, listens eagerly to our talks
Vinod, who lives in a tribal village called Ellappanaidu in Thiruvallur district, is a student of class 2 and is six years old. A smile and a brief conversation later, he works up the courage to ask me if I have come from the rehabilitation committee that has been working towards building pucca houses for the villagers.
the verdict 