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Forgotten Tale of Sacrifice, Love and Mothering

I've been visiting the rural areas of Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan for over a couple of months now in which I visited a single village for one whole month. Most of the kids attend the same school along with their siblings. A kid is enrolled in school at the age of six but are allowed to attend school even before that. Kids younger than the age of six attend school and learn from their environment and are not actually taught. I adore sibling relation, be it of opposite sex or same sex. But the relation I found remarkable here was older sister and younger brother relationship. Most of these sibling pairs do not have much age difference between them. Typically it is two to four years. But what would stun you is how much the girl cares for her brother. She literally becomes a mother for her brother at such a tender age. She studies while she caters to the needs of her brother and even the little boy follows her everywhere she goes to. I find no words to describe that unadulterated l