A few weeks ago, I was watching a video on YouTube. It was about how the Japanese kept their railway platforms clean. Well, it is an indisputable fact that Japan is one of the cleanest nations on the planet. So, there I was, spending an afternoon following the daily routine of the cleaning staff at […]
In India, with major food crops abandoned for the labour-intensive poppy cultivation, the farmers were left with nothing; neither grains nor vegetables nor money. Pushed by hunger and lack of substitutes for vegetables, the women of these impoverished households went foraging for alternatives. One of the things available in abundance were mounds of dried poppy