Section 01 · 02 essays
The lesson.
Curriculum, classroom, the syllabus we have, and the syllabus we do not. Essays about what we teach a child, and what we have never thought to teach an adult.
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№ 011 · Inside the home
The Last Round of the House
Every night, an adult walks the house before sleep. Bolts, gas, lights, children. One room never gets checked, and a child is sitting in it.
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Section 02 · 02 essays
The adult ring.
Around every child stands a village of adults, the teacher in the corridor, the paediatrician with the clipboard, the watchman with the torch. Essays written to them.
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Section 03 · 05 essays
Inside the home.
The Indian reality is intra-familial. Roughly nine of every ten accused is someone the child already knows. Essays that take that fact and do not soften it.
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Section 04 · 01 essay
After it happens.
Disclosure, the first hour, the long road after. Essays for the adult a child has chosen to tell, and for the work that begins the next morning.
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