Easier to get degrees than jobs, say ex-cons
Baba Saheb Ambedkar Open University, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Gujarat Vidyapith Kendra and Annamalai University are some of the universities which award inmates degrees for successfully completing a course through distance …
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Social worker makes Indian rural women work miracles
For Francis to be able to finish commerce at Annamalai University, his mother, who could not read nor write, took a loan from a moneylender in exchange for the family's 3-acre land as collateral. But she eventually lost everything when it turned out …
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Moving story of a Magsaysay winner
When I was ready to go Annamalai University my mother decided to mortgage the small piece of land. By the time I finished college, my mother had lost the land as the moneylender cheated her. Click on NEXT for more… Photographs: Sreeram Selvaraj …
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