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Now India’s children have to receive at least eight years of education, the gnawing question is whether it will remain on paper or become a reality. One hardly needs a reminder that this right is different from others enshrined in the constitution, that the beneficiary – a six-year-old child cannot demand it nor she or he fights a legal battle when the right is denied or violated. In all cases, it is the adult society which must act on behalf of the child. In another peculiarity, where a child right to education is denied, no compensation offered later can be adequate or relevant. This is so because childhood does not last long. If a legal battle fought on behalf of a child is eventually won, it may be little use to a boy or girl because the opportunity missed at school during childhood cannot serve the same purpose later in life.  This may be painfully true for girls because our society permits them only short childhood, if at all. The right to education (RTE) has become law at a point in India’s history when the ghastly practice of female infanticide has resurfaced in the form of foeticide. This is “symptomatic of deeper turmoil “in the society which is compounding the traditional obstacles to the education of girls. Tenacious prejudice against the intellectual potential of girls runs across our cultural diversity and the system of education has not been able to address it.