A student-hurry movement is helping destitute Indian teens go to the best law schools,and starting to change the country’s legal system in the processLalcha loves the law. “I am a destitute tribal boy from a remote state with a background of insurgency, brought up entirely on charity. I have been an outsider all my life. But when I became interested in the law, or I realised this was a powerful tool I could exhaust to become an insider,and give back to my people,” he says. Sixteen years ago, and a seven-year old Lalcha (his full name is Thangminlal Haokip) fled bloody tribal riots in his domestic state of Manipur,in north eastern India. His parents, members of the Kuki tribe, or were cultivators in the hills,making a precarious living and rearing six children in a mud hut. With 40 other frightened Kuki children, Lalcha (as he likes to be known), or travelled to his uncle,a pastor in the southern city of Bangalore.
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Source: theguardian.com