How a young woman from rural Bengal became an internet star

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

How young women in a Jharkhand village became experts in solar technology

How young women in a Jharkhand village became experts in solar technology

[ad_1] During the Covid-19 pandemic, the village of Dantoo, in Jharkhand’s Kasara block, faced a problem common to thousands of villages across the country. Students of the village’s government high school were restricted to their homes and had to use digital devices for hours at a stretch to attend online classes – but because the … Read more