Bhubaneshwar, Feb. 16 -- In a foggy and hazy Monday morning, tiny tots attired colourfully turned up at an Anganwadi pre-learning centre with their parents to joyfully take raggi ladoos from a Dalit woman, in a refreshing turnaround in a remote village, stuck in caste conflict for almost three months to grab national headlines, in Odisha's Kendrapara district.
The unsavoury dispute arose in Nuagaon village under Ghalimala gram panchayat, where residents boycotted the centre for nearly three months, also refusing to receive nutritious food items for pregnant women and parents stopping their kids from attending the Centre, protesting the engagement of Sharmistha Sethy, a Dalit woman, as a helper.
It was Sharmista Sethy, the daily woman help...