Women, care, and wellbeing in a changing environment of Central India

Women, care, and wellbeing in a changing environment of Central India

“Do you know what hurts the most? Not the heat, not the hunger,” says Rumki from a forest village on the Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh border. “It is the silence that follows when I ask for help. The land dries, my husband leaves for the city, and I remain—with no rain, no shade, and no answers.” In the tribal and agrarian heartlands of Central India, climate change is not a forecast—it is a lived reality. Monsoons arrive late or little. When they do, …