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MS. RUBY GHUZNAVI

CURRICULUM VITAE

ABSTRACTS

Neel: The Blue of Bangladesh

After it had experienced a century of neglect, Aranya made the first successful effort to revive natural indigo in Bangladesh in 1984. However, the negative oral history of indigo cultivation was so deeply ingrained in the collective memory of Bangladeshi farmers that they refused to cultivate it again. Even though, this time, the economic gains would be theirs...