Sangita Devi lives with her husband, Arjun, and 7-year-old daughter in Chirkhund Village, Palamu. Arjun is a daily-wage worker but is often unable to work because of his epilepsy. In 2021, pushed to the brink by extreme hunger, Arjun sought work in Punjab. But he had to come back home within a month after a […]
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The uneven single-lane road which leads you to Nawadi Sasari from Lohardaga ends abruptly, in the middle of nowhere. If you gaze continuously at the endless woodland in front, you could see a few houses probably a kilometre away. In the blazing Jharkhand sun, you’d rather not choose to walk, but manoeuvre a vehicle through
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Reducing or eliminating extreme poverty worldwide is a critical strategy, encompassed in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal #1: “End poverty in all its forms everywhere.” The extremely poor or ultra-poor have significant differences from the poor, contrary to popular representations of an undifferentiated mass of the ‘poor’ at the base of the pyramid. They
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Despite having lived for almost 28 years, for all practical purposes, Lalita Devi and her small family of four in the Lohardaga district, in the tribal belt of Jharkhand and around three hours from Ranchi, did not exist till July 2019.
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