They are counted as 'dropped out,' but in our wadi, we call it 'samball.' My Leena left in seventh standard when my back gave out—the rent from the baker is for medicines, not labour. Now she knows the price of every vegetable at Mapusa market and keeps the cows alive, which the attendance register does not count. The papers ask about her future, but today, without her, there would be no rice.
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