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1 Sep
It was love at first sight. Her family railed against marrying a blind man. Since then, their life has been full of twists, sometimes cruel. Yet Chitra and Muthuraja face life with courage and hope. This is their love story. 🧵

ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/ch…
2| Chitra plucks 1-2 kilos of jasmine flowers at a farm for daily wages. She has worked long, back-breaking hours since she was 10, much of it as a farmworker and cotton mill employee
3| Chitra and Muthuraja walk back to their home in Solankuruni village, in Madurai's Thiruparankundram block, after she finishes the day's work at the jasmine farm
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26 Aug
By simply implementing the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission (National Commission on Farmers). The extensive reports’ main features are condensed into 25 simple points here. Have a look 🧵 Image
2| To make farming a viable activity and reverse farmers’ distress, the following factors need to be taken into account— unfinished land reform agendas, quantity and quality of water, technology fatigue, accessible, adequate, and timely institutional credit, and assured markets. Image
3| The Swaminathan Commission (NCF) proposed putting farmers (and not traders) in charge of farmers’ markets. It calls for farmers to be regarded as partners in bringing about agricultural transformation and not as beneficiaries of government programmes Image
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24 Jul
This is a report by Aajeevika Bureau (an organisation working with migrant workers in Gujarat and Rajasthan) in April 2020. It explores the experiences faced by ‘circular migrants’ employed in the informal labour markets of Ahmedabad and Surat. 🧵

ruralindiaonline.org/en/library/res… |Free
2| Circular migrants move between ‘urban work destinations’ and their villages in rural areas, without settling in the cities where they are employed. Such migration includes movements that are short or long term; over short or long distances.
3| The ‘Gujarat Model of Development’, states the report, has been lauded as a success story for neoliberal reforms and an example for the rest of India. The state has large capital investments in power supply, ports, jetties, roads, industrial estates, and has over 50 SEZs, but
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24 Jul
This report contains the results of a study on the pandemic’s effects on women from households with a monthly income of less than Rs. 20,000, their livelihoods, access to essentials, assets, debt, food, nutrition, sanitation, and time use.

Download: ruralindiaonline.org/en/library/res…| 🧵
2| The report includes testimonies through telephonic interviews of about 15,000 women and 2,300 men from low-income households across 10 states: Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
3| It represents their experience of the nationwide lockdown –from March 24 to May 31, 2020 – and the following months. The interviewed women had access to mobiles; roughly 1/2 owned one. Hence, they represented a section of low-income households which was relatively better off.
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23 Jul
With traditional symbiosis b/w farmers and pastoralists on the decline, Kuruba shepherds are migrating greater distances with their herds and belongings – on an ever-harder journey. Here's a peek into their lives in this long photo essay🧵

ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/ku… 📷Prabir Mitra
2| “Our job is to find landlords who will give us good money for the manure that my animals produce for the land,” says S. Bandeppa. During winter, the Kuruba shepherds are on the road while agricultural work is at a low.
3| From then till around March-April, the pastoralist Kurubas of Karnataka, listed as a Scheduled Tribe, move about in groups of 2-3 families, covering, they estimate, a total distance of 600-800 kms. Walking on major roads is not easy, and the animals often get sick or injured
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22 Jul
Pari Education offers a new lens to see the world, and develops both empathy and understanding. 🧵 Image
Perhaps in our rush to make them global citizens, we have alienated them from their own history and geography. We need to expose our students to the rest-of-India, get them to engage with the wider world around them – that of rural India where 800 million people live and work Image
Why don’t we know more about them and why are their stories of resilience and unique skills not mandatory learning? Image
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