From millets to mistrust, a harvest gone sour
For over 40 years, the Deccan Development Society helped transform lives in Telangana’s Zaheerabad mandal, turning fallow lands fertile and empowering Dalit women through sanghams, savings and seeds. But today, the same women who built the movement are demanding answers: What happened to their years of deposits? Who sold their land? How did a movement rooted in collective trust begin to feel so distant, so opaque? As faith frays and misgivings grow, Serish Nanisetti traces the unraveling of a once-iconic grassroots model
For over 40 years, the Deccan Development Society helped transform lives in Telangana’s Zaheerabad mandal, turning fallow lands fertile and empowering Dalit women through sanghams, savings and seeds. But today, the same women who built the movement are demanding answers: What happened to their years of deposits? Who sold their land? How did a movement rooted in collective trust begin to feel so distant, so opaque? As faith frays and misgivings grow, Serish Nanisetti traces the unraveling of a once-iconic grassroots model
