TWENTY years is a long time to carry through the dream of passing the Class 10 examination, especially when life is a struggle just to make two ends meet.
Not for Smriti Banik, 39, though.
This mother of two does private tuition and runs a tea stall to supplement her husband’s meagre vegetable seller's income – in addition to household work.
Now she is preparing for this year’s Madhyamik (Class 10th) examination of the Tripura Board of Secondary Education, along with her teenaged daughter Sagarika. Both are enrolled as examinees at Office Tilla Higher Secondary School in Bishalgarh, Tripura, India. – IANS