English In Rural West Bengal, Women Roll 500 Beedi a Day for Rs 90 Wage Financial support for housing and health under the Beedi Workers Welfare Organisation has not been coming in, complain beedi workers,...
English A Winter Delicacy, The Patali Gur of Bengal is a Labour of Love, and Hard Work The traditional date palm jaggery makers of West Bengal climb up and down at least 60 palm trees a day...
English Bandhna Parob, the Bonding Festival of Tribal Communities in Jangalmahal In the Jangalmahal area of West Bengal, drums, songs and festivities carry on for two weeks as villagers send up...
English Infusing Colour into Bengal’s Fading Patachitra Artform Patachitra artists in Bharatpur village in West Bengal get a fillip as Sanghita Mitra, who quit her job with a...
English “If she wasn’t there that day, my baby would have died” In the many remote tribal villages of Bankura district in West Bengal, ASHA workers are the sole healthcare providers. These...
English West Bengal: ‘Unless all dues are cleared for eggs and vegetables, there will be no food served’ A crisis is brewing at the anganwadi centres across West Bengal where workers have threatened to stop serving meals from...
English Leaves, lives and livelihoods — tribal women risk their lives to earn Rs 5 for every 100 sal leaves they collect Hundreds of tribal women in Bankura district of West Bengal brave treacherous paths and encounter wild animals to collect sal...
English Agriculture is a sought after vocational course in this village high school in West Bengal Purandarpur Higher Secondary School in Bankura offers vocational courses to its students who come from economically weaker rural families. Seven...
