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On a misty morning, a man is seen riding on a bullock cart as he prepares to go to his fields. How often does one see a bullock cart in India these days? The baels or bulls are carrying a plough with them as well. The family's buffalos are fed, village children take in air pollution in the form of a fire's smoke. A woman makes chapattis on her home fire while her man eats them rotis with daal and subzi. A woman breaks branches to tend to her fire, goats are fed subabul leaves. Vignettes from central India's rural quarters of Madla village in Madhya Pradesh! Women start daily activities of feeding the livestock, making fire for cooking while the children are seen giggling and playing. The villagers burn trash from the tunnels to keep themselves warm. Keep watching to get a glimpse of the da