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Khushiโ€™s egg cracks open a bigger debate in Bengal

Khushiโ€™s egg cracks open a bigger debate in Bengal

A quiet radiance spills from Khushiโ€™s eyes โ€” an unguarded, almost sacred joy. Through the small gap in her missing front teeth, she smiles at a world that often forgets how to be kind. In that fleeting, viral moment โ€” of a child slipping her mid-day meal egg into her pocket โ€” not for herself, but for her brother โ€” there is something disarming, something profoundly human. ย  At Joyen Khan Primary School in Mograhat, South 24 Parganas, Khushi, the daughter of e-rickshaw driver Shambhu Kar, turned an ordinary school day into a quiet moral reckoning. When her teacher, Saddam…
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