Where does corporate lead!!
Introduction: I was travelling from Balaghat to Seoni in Madhya Pradesh in a private bus. I had a window seat and was enjoying the wind on my face. I was enjoying the greenery and the rice fields where the natives were working. At that time it started raining softly and people wrap a plastic covering all over them to avoid the rain and work uninterruptedly. I remembered my dissertation work while I was doing MA in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. My topic was Understanding Livelihood Trend Change in Latalaga village of Sundargarh district of Odisha. One of my major finding was substitution of various products by industrially produced goods leading to change in livelihood trend. Like I saw the wrapping up of plastic around their body, actually traditionally people were using “Ghungu” which was of the same structure like the plastic raincoat used in agricultural activity. I hardly find the traditional one which was made from a particular leaves c...