Why India’s Nomadic Tribes Must Have Access To Toilets And Dignity - Part 1

The author holds a mental health workshop with NT-DNT youth and women.

Mumbai: “You are talking about money for ration. Forget hundreds of rupees for food, we don’t have Rs 10 to give to the toilet attendant for our women and children. We are so ashamed to even talk about it, who do we go to with this problem?”

This is what a community leader said to me when I and my organisation, Anubhuti, started Covid relief work among the Nomadic and Denotified Tribe (NT-DNT) communities of Maharashtra in 2020. We were the first and one of the few organisations to focus on these groups during the lockdown.

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