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How a young woman from rural Bengal became an internet star

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How a young woman from rural Bengal became an internet star

[ad_1] For much of her college life in West Bengal’s Midnapore city, Pujarini Pradhan felt invisible. “If you ask people in my college, they probably won’t remember me,” she said. Unlike the girls from “big families” of the city, Pradhan was from a village in East Midnapore. “I used to go wearing a salwar suit, … Read more

Lac cultivation from Jharkhand’s trees might hold the key to rural livelihoods

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Lac cultivation from Jharkhand’s trees might hold the key to rural livelihoods

[ad_1] For more than ten years, Lawrence Kandulna was a migrant worker in Pune. A native of Kulhai village, in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, Lawrence worked as a gardener in a nursery in the city and returned home for just a few months in the year, during which he would grow paddy and harvest it. Four … Read more