Transformation in Learning

It was the mid-eighties. My dad, being a state government employee, was posted in a remote tribal area on civil construction work. Our hamlet was a set of thatched huts surrounded by lush greenery and a small river flowing nearby. The village, which was predominantly inhabited by a tribe called ‘Koya’, had a government-run primary school, where a single teacher would teach all the subjects. We, a small group of students, would stay under his custody most of the day.