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    Multimedia stories that provide an insight into how communities experience development at the grassroots.

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    Can Pulwama’s new coppersmiths compete with the machines?
    by Ilhak Ahmad Tantray, Umer Farooq Zargar
    Location Icon Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir
    Livelihoods
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    For a Mizoram candy brand, seasonal fruits are both a gift and a gamble
    by Zonunsanga Tlau
    Location Icon Serchhip district, Mizoram
    Environment
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    Solar panels cast a shadow over Rajasthan’s khejri trees
    by Kishanaram Godara
    Location Icon Bikaner district, Rajasthan
    Livelihoods
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    Green gold crisis: The barriers disrupting Kendu leaf trade in Odisha
    by Bidyut Mohanty
    Location Icon Koraput district, Odisha
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    Agriculture
    Back to school
    by Anushka Sampriti Bora, Deep Jyoti Sonu Brahma
    Location Icon Golaghat district, Assam
    Livelihoods
    How caste biases can impact skilling programmes
    by Ajit Singh
    Location Icon Jodhpur district, Rajasthan
    Livelihoods
    The communal poultry farming model of rural Odisha
    by Saswatik Tripathy
    Location Icon Mayurbhanj district, Odisha
    Water & Sanitation
    Why a village community in Madhya Pradesh wanted to build a well
    by Anshu Gupta
    Location Icon Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh
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    two female coppersmiths wearing headscarves in a workshop in kashmir--coppersmiths
    Livelihoods
    Can Pulwama’s new coppersmiths compete with the machines?
    by Ilhak Ahmad Tantray, Umer Farooq Zargar
    Location Icon Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir
    two women processing gooseberries in a tin house in serchhip district, mizoram--mizoram candy brand
    Livelihoods
    For a Mizoram candy brand, seasonal fruits are both a gift and a gamble
    by Zonunsanga Tlau
    Location Icon Serchhip district, Mizoram
    The image is set in a desert area with thorny bushes, and sand-like soil covering the ground. A recently cut tree is laying diagonally on a metal frame, placed right next to the tree stump. In the background, there are a series of solar panels placed on a similar metal frame._Khejri trees
    Environment
    Solar panels cast a shadow over Rajasthan’s khejri trees
    by Kishanaram Godara
    Location Icon Bikaner district, Rajasthan
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