June 12, 2017
Village girls in Bihar have started playing football to fight against child marriage. (Photo by Mohd Imran Khan)
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Girls join football clubs to resist child marriages in rural Bihar

Once topping the charts in child marriages in the country, Bihar has reduced the incidence of this social evil considerably, helped by innovative interventions such as starting girls clubs for solidarity and encouraging them to play football

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March 29, 2017
Despairing farmers driven to suicide has become a common phenomenon in India. (Photo by Prabhu B Doss)
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Droughts, floods, and suicides: What Bihar can teach Maharashtra and other states

A deeper dive is needed to draw insights from the low prevalence of farmer suicides in Bihar than in more developed regions of India such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh

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March 6, 2017
Rakesh Kumar of Chakwara village in front of his cauliflower seed farm. (Photo by Mohd Imran Khan)
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Pockets of prosperity bloom in Vaishali due to cauliflower seed farming

A combination of modern farming techniques and savvy marketing of cauliflower seeds is providing a large number of young people in Vaishali a lucrative livelihood and has halted out-migration completely

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