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In this West Bengal district, elderly left to battle climate stress alone

Erratic rainfall, agricultural shocks and rising migration have emptied villages in Purulia, leaving older  residents to fend for themselves Written by Joymala Bagchi Purulia: In West Bengal’s Chatarmahul village of Purulia district, Shakuntala Rajwar (85) lies frail on a charpai inside a dim, mud-walled room. The air is stale, sunlight never enters, and the cattle […]