Close to the Ganges River, which flows through India’s holy city of Varanasi in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, Janaki Devi is a textbook example of poor, working women who turn the wheels of one of India’s most important industries. Every morning she bathes in the river Hindus consider their holiest landmark. This is […]
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