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Children (school girls in this case) dancing in their classroom in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India. The teacher has clearly made learning fun, with elements of theater, song and dance worked into everyday classroom instruction... When you're in the middle of a salty desert with a dreary and drab landscape outside, and especially when it is 52 degrees Celcius in the sun, one needs to motivate, enthuse and inspire kids to come to school, especially when the lure of pocket money from working as salt workers, is a competing imperative! Rann of Kutch is a seasonal salt marsh located in the Thar Desert in the Kutch District of Gujarat, India. Source: Rann of Kutch, Wikipedia.org This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the