Piplantri was a Rajasthan village of barren and dusty hills. From 2005, Marble mining completed its desolation. Heat and dust, water scarcity and droughts made young people migrate. Girl children were considered a curse, many of them extinguished at birth.
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The author is a former Director of Gurjarvani centre for communication and currently an environmental activist at Sevasi, Vadodara.
