The Erangal Marathi Municipal School has been waiting for over a decade to turn the page to a sunnier chapter. But the sun never smiles on it. Barely standing at Malad’s Marve beach, the village school serves a frightening warning: that regardless of who wins the tug-of-war between civic officials and villagers, it’s the students who’ll lose the battle.

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