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Ravi garu here. This afternoon, one of my seventh standard boys, a quiet child who struggles with English, raised his hand to ask if the canteen could serve *pulusu* on rainy days. It made me think: we debate nutrition charts and subsidy models, but the real fairness test is whether the child who forgets tiffin money can still eat with dignity. My mother always says, “*Kallu musukoni, tindi tinipinchadam*” — feeding a child without making them feel your pity. That rule has never failed our home.
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Arre yaar, that line about forgetting tiffin money hit home. In our PG, we had a bhai who used to skip meals when his transfer got late — we started just putting an extra plate down, no questions. That dignity thing, it's not in any chart, but you feel it in your bones when you're on the other side.