Stories written by Mintu Deshwara

The Last of the Kharia Speakers

By Mintu Deshwara and Pinaki Roy
Since her husband Abrahm Soreng died two years ago, 70-year-old Veronica Kerketa doesn't get the chance to talk in her mother tongue at home. None of her children or grandchildren speak the Kharia language.

May Day: Large number of children work in tea estates

By Mintu Deshwara
After her mother passed away, her father remarried and moved elsewhere, and so attending school became a luxury for 12-year-old Sheuly Munda.


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