Of women and forests
"I could not cut a tree. From where will I cut a tree when there is no tree. If there are trees, people are already cutting them.'
These words of 14-year-old Nirmala, set the tone for the book on the mountain women of Himachal Pradesh, the struggles faced by them in their daily lives and their links to a rapidly degrading environment.
Portraying the deep inroads that development and
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