Stepping out of the cowpat
The potholed streets of India’s countryside are a colourful jumble of cows and even camels that wander beneath large advertising signs – and of huge, neat piles of cattle dung made into round, flat patties.
The potholed streets of India’s countryside are a colourful jumble of cows and even camels that wander beneath advertising signs for mobile phone plans, education colleges, IT courses and real estate developments – and of huge, neat piles of cattle dung made into round, flat patties.
That’s what a large number of India’s farming and village population still use for cooking and heating – one of the many jarring contradictions of modern India.
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