Designed for the classroom, they cover every subject imaginable, from science and technology to guides on proper manners. Educational charts can be found posted across India in post offices and railway stations, among other public spaces. Although didactic in nature, many of them are riddled with errors that defy all logic. People and objects are often bizarrely rendered; the names of places and things are routinely misspelled. For example, a chart on insect life includes panels on the life cycles of frogs and chickens.

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