Climate change and conflict: Manipuri women are fighting a war for survival on two fronts

Rucha Chitnis Lalzamien observed that the rains had become capricious. The farmer from Churachandpur district of Manipur reminisced about ai-ruo, the November rain that brings out the crabs that crawl on the wet, muddy earth. In the Hmar dialect, ai is crab and ruo is rain. Such a name for the rain elucidates how closely […]

Rucha Chitnis Lalzamien observed that the rains had become capricious. The farmer from Churachandpur district of Manipur reminisced about ai-ruo, the November rain that brings out the crabs that crawl on the wet, muddy earth. In the Hmar dialect, ai is crab and ruo is rain. Such a name for the rain elucidates how closely […]

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