Thousands of women who have graduated from the ‘school of life’ are transforming village panchayats with their able governance.
Veena Devi is one such person. She is unlettered, but not uneducated, for she has been educated in the 'school of life', and, perhaps because of this, she has a wisdom beyond her years and certainly more profound than anything taught in our schools.
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