-Scroll.in The SaBar of East Singhbhum district, huddled in tiny huts, are haunted by hunger and illness. One may never get to know how the SaBar live unless one looks for them. Even that requires guidance from someone who knows where they stay. We reached their hamlets, or rather their scattered huts, at the end of narrow country paths in a remote corner of Potka Block in East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand. On...
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Harsola scripts tale in cauliflower farming -Rajesh Jauhri
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