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The people of this MP village fear building roofs

Despite gentle interventions by the government, the people of Kaf village, in Madhya Pradesh, hold on to a unique superstition that prevents them from building concrete roofs. This belief is a double-edged sword, discovers Village Square.

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How written words got her family a new house

When a student’s family had to continue to live in a dilapidated house in Uttarakhand amid fears of landslides in the monsoon, she decided to hone her writing skills to get the officials’ attention. It worked.