Meet the solar sisters of India
Women are helping light up villages and even irrigate fields across India using solar-energy gadgets that they make and sell.
Diwash Gahatraj is based in Siliguri, India, and writes about the environment, marginalized communities, climate change, food, and farming. He has been published in The Guardian, South China Morning Post, VICE News, The National News. Fair Planet, Rest of the World, Atlas Obscura. He can be reached at diwash.gahatraj@gmail.com
Women are helping light up villages and even irrigate fields across India using solar-energy gadgets that they make and sell.
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