Faces of India – 131 School Girl from Sundarbans

Faces of India

a series through which I intend to portray the various characters of my country whom I met during my travels. I bring back souvenirs, frozen moments from my travels, why not some memories of people I have met and interacted during the travels. Faces of India is a weekly series in my blog since MARCH 2011. See more here

school girl from Sundarbans Bengal

School girl from Sundarbans Bengal

She is a school girl from Sundarbans, West Bengal, in her 10th grade. Notice that her school uniform is “sari”. I asked her if she didn’t feel uncomfortable in attending school wrapped in that 5 yards of cloth called sari (saree). She smiled and admitted that they did feel uncomfortable. I further asked her why doesn’t she tell the school authorities and ask for a change in uniform, to which she replied: my seniors never objected…

School Uniform – Saree

The city schools of west Bengal have skirt-shirt or salwaar-kameez as uniform for girls. But in remote areas and villages the girls have to wear sari as uniform. Till seventh or eighth grade girls wear skirt and shirts, but the day they step into 8th or 9th grade the uniform changes to sari.

See uniform of boys from a school on Chandigarh: Faces of India – 135

School girls in saree uniform Sundarbans Bengal

School girl from Sundarbans in saree uniform

Faces of India - 132 Driver from Kolkata
Photo Frames from Hampi Ruins in Karnataka

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