How West Bengal’s Cooperative Jute Mills Are Fighting the Plastic Bag Ban With a 200-Year-Old Fibre
In a humid shed along the Hooghly River, approximately 40 kilometres north of Kolkata, a woman named Rina Mondal feeds raw golden fibre into a carding machine that has been running, with repairs, since 1987. She earns around ₹320 a day. Two years ago, she earned ₹210 — and her mill was weeks from shutting … Read more