chartandwaters

I thought more of the Dabloo family read and wrote, which is why I didn't understand the lack of books. I don't know if I assumed that, or if I asked and someone hedged or didn't understand. About 90% of the houseboat community does not read or write, and only the Dabloo school-aged children do. School-aged children are learning literacy in English and Urdu but I've not seen parents who are teaching themselves to read or write. During the war BBC and Voice of America were lifelines for people, but now people have stopped wanting to hear the details.