A cruel neglect

July 30, 2014 12:33

The state, and individual schools, are not doing enough to protect children from physical abuse. The recent gruesome incidents in which three students were brutally thrashed by the principal of a school in Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, and equally despicable conduct by authorities elsewhere, are shocking reminders of this fact. Read

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