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Back from Bangladesh, an Assam woman struggles to recover from ‘pushback’

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Back from Bangladesh, an Assam woman struggles to recover from ‘pushback’

[ad_1] When she saw me walking into her home in Assam’s Barpeta district, Amina Begum attempted valiantly to get up from the bed. Her body shook as the 68-year-old tried – and failed – to raise herself. When I had visited Begum in June last year, she was not this infirm. She was walking, her … Read more

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