Back in the village, in the land of milk honey and dust or Guruve, the faintest memory waft is sometimes enough to transport one back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment into childhood. And it is surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
In the first decade of our independence, education was a low-hanging fruit, everyone from those who had been forced to drop off school due to the liberation war, came back to school. The young and the old mixed and mingled in school.
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