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Shades of motherhood from rural India

By Village Square
Published May 8, 2022
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A mother teaches her small son sitting on drying grains, with two ducks observing

A mother teaches her son Bengali as they are joined by two other unusual students (Photo by Nimai Chandra Ghose)

Mother spinning a charkha while her daughter shows what she has written in a slate

Multitasking mother – A mother reviews her daughter’s work while spinning charkha wheels (Photo by Pallab Pramanik)

A young boy accompanying her mother and other women carrying pots of water

Near Damodar river, in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, a mother is accompanied by her son and friends to get drinking water (Photo by Deepak Kumar)

A mother and her kids outside their hut

A mother and her children wait outside their hut made of dried grasses and cow dung (Photo by Pinks Shah Jain)

A mother with a goat resting in her lap

A special bond – A goat rests in a woman’s lap (Photo by Liza Sahani)

A mother with her a child in an anganwadi

Kanchan with her mother at an anganwadi center Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh (Photo by Sohinee Thakurta)

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