Lifting her translucent red tie-and-dye cotton veil, Sunder Devi, 45, dexterously sorts ‘moonjh’ (Saccharum munja). Nearby her daughter, Kiran, 14, niftily assembles them into brooms. Theirs is one of the 150 families in
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Nuapada - There is a local song that poignantly captures the reality of the tendu leaf gatherers of Orissa’s Nuapada district: “Chho chhoko, bhunji loka, patar tudle laagsi bhoka (we are Bhunj tribals/while plucking tendu leaves, we feel hunger).”
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