Covid takes heavy toll but still they dared to dream At the 25th edition of The Telegraph school awards, poignant moments
The pandemic took away their fathers, pushing their families into deeper poverty. But it could not take away their dreams.
Class VI student Kajal Das, daughter of a vegetable vendor who passed away a couple of months ago, continues to spend a long time every day, rain or shine, running on a patch of land in her Behala neighbourhood. She wants to realise her ambition of becoming an athlete.
Debanjan Sarkar, a roadside hawker’s son who lost his father to Covid days before the NEET, and was himself afflicted with the coronavirus, still cracked the all-India exam.