As she sat down, back ramrod straight, ready with her list of most-deserving candidates, she acknowledged how far she had come from the time she started out by being labelled a slut and a pimp. Now that seven hundred people of a total of 6,000 in her village were completely out of food, Sudha was in a unique position to help. But in the last two and a half years, Sudha had fought enough of them as head of a women’s collective across 14 villages. Her superior position was enough to set off competitors and jealous neighbours. Sudha was in a commanding position in her village, Nala, in the district of Shamli, as she set up a desk at the front porch of her house, to begin distributing COVID emergency relief kits. It was calculated to have just the right amount of drama without making too much of a statement. Shamli (Uttar Pradesh): Her bronze sari with red sequined flowers gleamed in the afternoon sun.
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