Sitabai Deshmukh, 88, has spent her whole life in a village in Maharashtra, Fangane. When she was a child, her village didn바카라t have a school. So she couldn바카라t study and, like many women of her age, settled into the rhythms of domesticity: She became a wife, a mother, a grandmother바카라an eternal care giver. But in the spring of 2016, on Women바카라s Day, a school opened in Fangane enrolling students like her, Ajjibaichi Shaala (Grandmother바카라s School). Soon, she had a new morning routine: wearing a pink sari, keeping a slate in her satchel, and walking across the village to reach the school바카라her school.
Sitting on the floor with fellow students바카라old women from the ages of 60 to 90바카라she learned to read alphabets and numbers, opening a new world, meeting her new version. Her story illuminates the joys of personal reinvention and the real meanings of education: liberating it from the confines of a 바카라neoliberal project바카라바카라something solely tied to a job and a salary, reducing diverse people to money-minting tools바카라and recasting it as a means of fulfilment, empowerment, and self-discovery.
바카라Now I바카라m ready,바카라 she says in a documentary. 바카라At the gates of heaven if I바카라m asked, 바카라What did you do as a human?바카라, then I바카라ll be able to say, 바카라I went to school. I can sign my name.바카라바카라
