Schoolchildren fall through the digital divide.
The one smartphone in Kavi’s home belongs to his mother. It broke down a few days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a sudden, strict lockdown across India to flatten the coronavirus curve.
The curve was not flattened – at the time of writing India was breaking records for daily infections – but huge numbers of children from poor households with no online access like Kavi stand to lose a school year. Some will probably never go back to school.
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