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Some images of shame and pride around literacy and illiteracy | Torchlight
Illustration: Alia Sinha “You ask yourself, have I got a name if I can’t write it? Am I a human being if I can’t read it? You turn to stone ...” Stanley has just lost his job once again on account of being unable to read or write and here he is confiding in Iris,