Megacities << Back to Feature Page View exclusive photographs and get the facts behind the frame. Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >>  Click to ZOOM IN >> Study Session Photograph by Stuart Franklin Cramming for an exam, girls at the Hussaini Alam government school in Hyderabad, India, review their textbooks in an outdoor courtyard. In this swelling city of more than five million people schools are often underfunded. Hussaini Alam, which serves poor children in the sixth through tenth grades, lacks electricity and averages 35 pupils a class.

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