You do not usually expect the presence of 14 women dressed in all their finery at a busy shopping mall to make headlines. One can agree that this is not breaking news. What makes the appearance of the women special is that they were all in their early thirties and were indigenous forest-dwelling tribal women from more than 100 km away. The women were in the mall in Mysore to launch their ragi-based food products made in a factory that they owned and operated far away on the fringes of the Bandipur National Park.
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