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C-NES features India Casts a Light on Mothers Long in the Dark

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In India the incidence of women dying while giving birth is among the highest in the world. How...

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The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research is featuring Hanna Ingber Win's reporting on maternal mortality in India. Below is an excerpt from C-NES website:

Hanna Ingber Win, a New York based reporter, has been travelling on the islands of the Brahmaputra with C-NES' boat clinics over the past days and has produced some of the most sparkling and dramatic accounts of the work we do. In a series of blogs for the Pulitzer Centre, which is funding her travel and writing about family planning and maternal mortality issues in India, Hanna, a cheerful and thoughtful individual, writes with devastating insight and a brisk anecdotal narrative that makes her work truly luminous and throws clear light on the stupendous task that the boat clinic teams, often unsung and unseen, are doing.

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