Rural women are now very busy drying paddy in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur. Despite round-the-clock work, their fatigue is tempered by the joy of harvesting paddy they cultivated themselves. In ...

Chhattisgarh, proudly known as the "rice bowl of India", is seeing a crisis. Paddy in the state is now vanishing at the speed of a truck every hour. Officially, it is being eaten by rats, pecked away ...