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⛔ photograph needed — Rahitha with the Chenda

Beating Barriers

She was told the Chenda wasn't for girls. Rahitha now plays it, and teaches it to girls in Kozhikode who have been told the same thing by the same people, in the same words.

By Rahitha Krishnadas

One sentence here is invented and it is the one that matters. “She was told the Chenda wasn’t for girls” is the live site’s own line. ⛔ Everything after it — that she teaches girls in Kozhikode who were told the same thing — is design filling in the obvious continuation, and the obvious continuation is exactly the kind of detail that turns out to be wrong about a real, named, living person. Replace it with what she actually does.