Local Warming ; a Climate Change Initiative Revives the Tradition of Communal Stoves and Gives Women a Breather.

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For most women in Punjab, dinnertime means heading to the kitchen to begin making chapatis. But things have changed in Fazilka. At dinnertime, they dress up just that little bit and are out of their homes with kneaded flour as they head for the neighbourhood chulha. Here, they bake their bread even as they talk and gossip before going back home with hot chapatis.

The sanjha chulha-one of Punjab's folk traditions, said to have been started by the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak Dev, as a community langar-is back. The Graduates Welfare Association, Fazilka (GWAF) that set up these tandoors may have environmental reasons behind the move, but for women these chulhas have come as a breath of fresh air.

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Local Warming ; a Climate Change Initiative Revives the Tradition of Communal Stoves and Gives Women a Breather.

"I was fed up of being confined to the house the whole day. It is so refres...

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