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Sarada Lahangir

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Job Rolling Tobacco Sickens India’s Women

By Sarada Lahangir ● Employment ● October 17, 2011

Tuberculosis, bronchitis and cancer are common among the low-paid Indian women who sit rolling raw tobacco in dry tendu leaves to earn pocket change for the thousands of “beedis” they produce weekly.

India’s Tendu Gatherers Sing of Hunger and Work

By Sarada Lahangir ● Employment ● June 23, 2011

Gathering tendu leaves for India’s indigenous cigarettes is supposed to be supplemental work. But as these workers–most of them women–contend with a persistent drought, more families depend on minuscule earnings for survival.