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by Nishtha Anushree - Mar 9, 2021 09:00 AM Children being served Akshaya Patra’s mid-day-meal (Pic via Akshaya Patra) Snapshot With schools being shut during the Covid-19 saga, Akshaya Patra too could have retreated into the government-induced stillness. But that was not its aim. Here's what it did during this period of crisis. Akshaya Patra has been serving hot, nutritious food to school-going children as 'Mid-Day Meals' for two decades, but the Covid-19 pandemic led to schools shutting down. The organisation, therefore, had two options before it — the easy one, to shut its op...

Prof Ged Martin George Bartlett had moved his bakery business to Mawney Road in 1895. - Credit: Google Maps It's not easy to get teenagers out of bed in the morning, and Jessie Bartlett was happy to let her two older girls lie in on Saturdays. It wasn't a school day, and the weather in March 1898 was awful – high winds, driving snow. Anyway, she was kept busy around breakfast time in the Mawney Road bakery as her husband George produced batches of fresh loaves for early customers. Eventually, around 10.30, Jessie found time to head upstairs to rouse thirteen-year-old Ada – known as Dolly ...