Telangana govt-run school campuses pushing chess

The classroom falls into a tense hush as Vaishnavi hovers over a rook, her mind flickering through numerous possibilities before her fingers finally move. Until weeks ago, the Class 8 student at the Zilla Parishad High School (ZPHS) in Wazeedu of Telangana’s Mulugu district had long feared even touching a chess board. But today, she…

The classroom falls into a tense hush as Vaishnavi hovers over a rook, her mind flickering through numerous possibilities before her fingers finally move. Until weeks ago, the Class 8 student at the Zilla Parishad High School (ZPHS) in Wazeedu of Telangana’s Mulugu district had long feared even touching a chess board. But today, she…