Mushroom money

M. J. Prabu

Fifty-two-year-old Lal Muni Devi has been leading a life of drudgery and
poverty. Her husband is sick and unable to work, so Lal Muni and her younger son have to work as day labourersin other fields. What little she earned till now, she saved to marry off one of her daughters. But Lal Muni is not alone. There are several like her in her village, Azad Nagar, living in dark windowless, single-room thatched sheds, which also double up as cowsheds for some. Life is indeed very tough for them.

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