For Nabudo Halepotra, life in Banni means knowing how to live with extremes. In this arid landscape of Kachchh, Gujarat, summer temperatures can touch 50°C, while much of the groundwater is too saline to drink. Yet Nabudo and other Maldhari pastoralists know where to look for freshwater. Beneath the dry beds of seasonal ponds known […]
For Nabudo Halepotra, life in Banni means knowing how to live with extremes. In this arid landscape of Kachchh, Gujarat, summer temperatures can touch 50°C, while much of the groundwater is too saline to drink. Yet Nabudo and other Maldhari pastoralists know where to look for freshwater. Beneath the dry beds of seasonal ponds known […]
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