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India's 16-year-old headmaster

Despite being just 16 years old, Babar Ali is the headmaster of his local school in West Bengal, India.

Along with other volunteers he attends school in the morning and then teaches fellow villagers in the afternoon.

Damian Grammaticas went along to the school to find out more.

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