In the 1990s, in a village of about 300 people in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh, there was exactly one place where news from the outside world arrived: a tea shop. Electricity had reached the village only in 1995. There was no school beyond Class 5, no library, no community space. But every day, a newspaper came to that tea shop. Vimal Jat, the co-founder and CEO of Synergy Sansthan, then a young boy from a labourer’s family, would stan…
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