Brewing Sustenance
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26/05/2008
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Business World (Kolkata)
Healthy Brew: Differently-abled children benefit hugely from the training provided at Tata Tea's vocational centres (Pic By C.P. Shanmugham) The verdant rolling hills of Munnar, a tourist hub in Kerala, God's own country, did nothing to ease the pain in the body and mind of Banumathi, a 20-year-old unemployed villager of Munnar's Kannan Devan hills, Kerala's most populous village. Banumathi, who has difficulty in walking, and who also suffered from chronic cardiac problems, was unable to put in long hours at any sort of strenuous work. Her self-esteem was at its nadir, and she was at crossroads. "With my disabilities, I didn't know where to go,' she recalls. That was 14 years ago. It was fate, perhaps, that presented her an opportunity to make it good, when a relative