August 9, 2026
  • August 9, 2026

In Agra, Dalits yearn for Maya of yore, search for new icon

by on May 5, 2024 0

Lal mirch, haldi, dhaniya. These are the three ingredients Kusum Nigam mostly uses in her sparse kitchen that’s carved out of the one-room house in which she lives with her husband and three daughters. At the end of a gruelling week working leather into pretty shapes that will eventually cover someone’s feet, they sometimes...

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