In Jayapura, the village Modi adopted

[First published in The Hindu dated May 31, 2015] Jitu Banbasi is a happy man today. A member of the Scheduled Tribe Musahar community, from Jayapura village in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, he lived in a makeshift brick house earlier but is now entitled to a pucca house painted in bright yellow and cobalt blueContinue reading “In Jayapura, the village Modi adopted”