A Bed of Thorns: For the migrant cotton carders from Bihar, their work in West Bengal earns them just  disease and despair
A Bed of Thorns: For the migrant cotton carders from Bihar, their work in West Bengal earns them just disease and despair

Sun, 12 May 2024

By Srishti Lakhotia

The Mansoori community, traditionally associated with cotton, either in its cultivation, ginning or trading, sees no future for its craft with a decline in demand for cotton mattresses, and the impact of COVID-19. Many of its members suffer from asthma and tuberculosis.

A Bed of Thorns: For the migrant cotton carders from Bihar, their work in West Bengal earns them just  disease and despair
A Bed of Thorns: For the migrant cotton carders from Bihar, their work in West Bengal earns them just disease and despair

Sun, 12 May 2024

By Srishti Lakhotia

The Mansoori community, traditionally associated with cotton, either in its cultivation, ginning or trading, sees no future for its craft with a decline in demand for cotton mattresses, and the impact of COVID-19. Many of its members suffer from asthma and tuberculosis.

A Bed of Thorns: For the migrant cotton carders from Bihar, their work in West Bengal earns them just  disease and despair
A Bed of Thorns: For the migrant cotton carders from Bihar, their work in West Bengal earns them just disease and despair

Sun, 12 May 2024

By Srishti Lakhotia

The Mansoori community, traditionally associated with cotton, either in its cultivation, ginning or trading, sees no future for its craft with a decline in demand for cotton mattresses, and the impact of COVID-19. Many of its members suffer from asthma and tuberculosis.

A Bed of Thorns: For the migrant cotton carders from Bihar, their work in West Bengal earns them just  disease and despair
A Bed of Thorns: For the migrant cotton carders from Bihar, their work in West Bengal earns them just disease and despair

Sun, 12 May 2024

By Srishti Lakhotia

The Mansoori community, traditionally associated with cotton, either in its cultivation, ginning or trading, sees no future for its craft with a decline in demand for cotton mattresses, and the impact of COVID-19. Many of its members suffer from asthma and tuberculosis.

RSVP: Alarm bells for Kolkata's famed wedding invite business
RSVP: Alarm bells for Kolkata's famed wedding invite business

Sun, 12 May 2024

By Srishti Lakhotia

Heaps of ready-to-distribute invitation cards gather dust in dark corners of shops that have reopened after months on Amherst Street and Burra Bazar of Kolkata, West Bengal. Will the upcoming wedding season revive their dead business?

RSVP: Alarm bells for Kolkata's famed wedding invite business
RSVP: Alarm bells for Kolkata's famed wedding invite business

Sun, 12 May 2024

By Srishti Lakhotia

Heaps of ready-to-distribute invitation cards gather dust in dark corners of shops that have reopened after months on Amherst Street and Burra Bazar of Kolkata, West Bengal. Will the upcoming wedding season revive their dead business?

RSVP: Alarm bells for Kolkata's famed wedding invite business
RSVP: Alarm bells for Kolkata's famed wedding invite business

Sun, 12 May 2024

By Srishti Lakhotia

Heaps of ready-to-distribute invitation cards gather dust in dark corners of shops that have reopened after months on Amherst Street and Burra Bazar of Kolkata, West Bengal. Will the upcoming wedding season revive their dead business?

RSVP: Alarm bells for Kolkata's famed wedding invite business
RSVP: Alarm bells for Kolkata's famed wedding invite business

Sun, 12 May 2024

By Srishti Lakhotia

Heaps of ready-to-distribute invitation cards gather dust in dark corners of shops that have reopened after months on Amherst Street and Burra Bazar of Kolkata, West Bengal. Will the upcoming wedding season revive their dead business?

A lost match: 'Garden players' of West Bengal's Dooars hope for a revival of football
A lost match: 'Garden players' of West Bengal's Dooars hope for a revival of football

Sun, 12 May 2024

By Srishti Lakhotia

With the closure of tea gardens, football, which used to be celebrated in villages in North Bengal's Dooars at one point, is dying a slow death.

A lost match: 'Garden players' of West Bengal's Dooars hope for a revival of football
A lost match: 'Garden players' of West Bengal's Dooars hope for a revival of football

Sun, 12 May 2024

By Srishti Lakhotia

With the closure of tea gardens, football, which used to be celebrated in villages in North Bengal's Dooars at one point, is dying a slow death.

A lost match: 'Garden players' of West Bengal's Dooars hope for a revival of football
A lost match: 'Garden players' of West Bengal's Dooars hope for a revival of football

Sun, 12 May 2024

By Srishti Lakhotia

With the closure of tea gardens, football, which used to be celebrated in villages in North Bengal's Dooars at one point, is dying a slow death.

A lost match: 'Garden players' of West Bengal's Dooars hope for a revival of football
A lost match: 'Garden players' of West Bengal's Dooars hope for a revival of football

Sun, 12 May 2024

By Srishti Lakhotia

With the closure of tea gardens, football, which used to be celebrated in villages in North Bengal's Dooars at one point, is dying a slow death.

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