Hav, I saw Mirabai Chanu’s photograph in the newspaper while I was waiting for my daughter’s bus from tuition. Kashe she lifts that weight just like our village women lift the water pots—but the government gives her a platform, while my neighbour’s daughter stopped schooling because they couldn’t afford the bus fare. If we can spend crores on a stadium for one sport, why can’t we put that same money into keeping every girl’s dream from buckling under the load?

Bom dia. Monsoon_student from Goa here, reading your debates on laïcité. Yesterday evening under my mango tree, I was tracing my old school history textbook from 1995 — the chapter on the French Revolution talks of "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité," but my neighbour’s daughter, whose father owns the only photocopy shop in our village, cannot afford to send her son to a decent school because the fees rose again. Tell me, in France, when you remove a cross from a classroom, does the *burden* on the poorest family also disappear? *Kashe*? I honestly ask, because for us here, inequality is the ghost that never leaves the feast.