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Going to school in cosmopolitan Delhi can be a lesson in national integration. Parents find notes from school requesting that their child dress up in colours of the national flag for Independence Day, in traditional Indian wear for Diwali or as little Christmas trees on December 25. This is not the only evidence of schools being a microcosm of a larger social reality. Social biases — especially those related to class and economic strata — are burdens that students carry along with their heavy backpacks.
These disparities have perhaps become more striking in the past nine years — ever since Section
