The Pushkar Cooperative That Turned Camel Herders Into Leather Exporters
Somewhere on the sandy periphery of the Pushkar Camel Fair in 2019, a Raika herder named Bhawani Ram sold his last female camel for ₹8,000 — roughly the price of a mid-range smartphone. His family had maintained a herd of forty camels across three generations in Ajmer district, Rajasthan. By that winter, he was down … Read more