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Writings on the wall: In this hamlet in Odisha, basic facilities are hard to come by. The literacy rate is 35 per cent, lower than the district literacy rate of 48.54 per cent. The village’s school-going children had to travel over two kilometres for education. After the singular school shut down due to the pandemic, villagers decided to voice their discontent in a creative way: by writing on walls. Almost every wall in the village now speaks about students needing classes and the school, a facelift. The wall-writing trend has now been picked up by other villages in the state