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Remote village in Karbi Anglong sets cleanliness benchmark
Most people in the sleepy village of Shikdamakha, some 100 km from state capital Guwahati, haven’t heard of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the central government’s flagship water and sanitation program....
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Nizara Talukdar in her mid 30s is just another village woman in Assam who has grown up in poverty. But the times seem to have changed as she has started to earn more through her innovative ideas,...
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Facebook, WhatsApp curbing child marriages in Assam
Rulima Khatun of Dalgaon in Assam’s Darrang district, one of the most backward areas of the state, is just 17 years of age and she is not as unfortunate as many of her friends in the neighborhood. She...
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Assam flood fury leaves high houses on river islands untouched
Living on the chars or sandbars on the mighty Brahmaputra and its fast tributaries isn’t easy. But this year was different for some villagers on a small islet called Tapajuli Pathar in Assam’s Barpeta...
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Youth trade guns for bananas in Assam
Rudra Kanta Rabha, a tribal man in his late 30s, in a sleepy village in Goalpara district of Assam, used to hide from people and police to carry out his job some 15 years ago. But today Rabha is seen...
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Pad women of Assam start menstrual hygiene movement
Jonali Fangsho in her late 20s is a resident of Pamohi village in the outskirts of Guwahati, the capital city of the northeastern state of Assam. Pamohi village, inhabited mostly by the Karbi tribe, is...
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Assamese women thrive on value-added garden produce
Utpola Bora always worried about the future of her child, especially after Nagaon Paper Mill, to which her husband supplied bamboos, shut down. Maj Jajori is a small village in Assam’s Nagaon district...
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Manas villagers benefit from alternate livelihoods
For Sabitri Barman in her 50s, a handcart plays a major role in earning her livelihood in a remote village near the Manas National Park in Assam near the India-Bhutan international border. She has been...
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Women bring economic and environmental changes with leaf plates
Rijumoni Rabha of Baghmara village in Assam’s Kamrup district always worried about money for daily expenses as her husband does not have a regular income. But now that she makes tableware from areca...
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