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On a scorching afternoon in Malkapur village in western UP’s Baghpat, Nirmala arrives in an e-rickshaw to work at a wheat farm, along with her husband Mahesh and their four children.

एक के बाद एक चुनावों में, प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने भारतीय मतदाताओं के बड़े हिस्से को इस विचार के साथ लुभाया है कि उनकी सरकार के तहत उनके ‘भ्रष्ट’ राजनीतिक प्रतिद्वंद्वियों का परिवारवादी शासन समाप्त हो गया है. हालांकि, उनके नेतृत्व में नई भाजपा भी परिवारवाद से अछूती नहीं है.

In one election after another, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has wooed large chunks of the Indian electorate with the idea that the dynastic rule of his “corrupt” political rivals has come to an end under his government. 

Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district, bordering Jharkhand and Odisha, is known as the gateway of elephants, a habitat of the wild giants where they have coexisted with the tribals for centuries. But over the past few decades of increasing human-elephant conflict and thinning forests, many have fallen prey to wild elephants.