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TO GO WITH Lifestyle-Asia-education-India,FEATURE by Adam Plowright Indian schoolchildren read in a classroom at a government school in Bagpath district in Uttar Pradesh on August 30, 2012. On any given day in a state primary school in India, up to one in four teachers is missing. The cost for a country that sees its young population as its ticket to superpower status is huge. In the poor and agricultural district of Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, a state home to nearly 200 million people or one in six Indians, absences afflict pupils and fellow teachers alike. AFP PHOTO/SAJJAD HUSSAIN (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/GettyImages)