This Tribal Cooperative in Bastar Has Outlived 78 Years of Government Schemes and Still Runs
Somewhere in the sal forests south of Jagdalpur, a 62-year-old Muria Gond woman named Sukhmati carries a headload of tamarind and mahua flowers to a collection centre that her grandmother also walked to. The centre belongs to a cooperative that was registered in 1948 — just months after India’s independence — and against every reasonable … Read more