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Four books and a 1994 telephone directory

The library at MPPS Kothapally now holds 840 titles. When we first walked in, it held four — and one of those was a phone book.

18 Aug 2026Sudhakar Vemula2 min read

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What ₹640 actually buys
A line-by-line breakdown of a school kit, including the two items we cut and why, and what our margin on the whole thing is.

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Sarala came back

She stopped coming to school in Class 7. Nobody wrote it down anywhere. Here is what it actually took to get her back.

21 Jul 20262 min read

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It is recorded as a family decision. It is a plumbing decision.

Eleven schools on our register have a toilet block that was inaugurated with a ribbon and has never worked. Here is what that costs, in school days.

17 Jul 20262 min read

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The library that opens on Sunday

At Ankapur the school library is open to the whole village on Sunday mornings. It was not our idea, and the attendance register is the best thing we have read all year.

17 Jun 20262 min read