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Again at the GANDHI VANITA ASHRAM in Jalandhar (20/3/97)
460 > wildtrack in machine knitting room (quite good) - knits
jumpers for police [all the textiles made hre are
for police]
468 > vox pop with supt re work [not good]
GAP
475 > old woman with gashed face spinning khaddi (so quiet
it's unuseable)
480 > handloom FX (being worked by a man), weaving khaddi
490 > slightly better khaddi spinning FX - and not v good vox
pop with woman: making khaddi thread which will
finally be used in making towels
499 > treadle sewing machines - making mosquito nets and kit
bags for the police
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518 > training centre for women today
520 > 'originally the women who wer here were destitutes
resulting out of partn, the women and their children,
now besides training centre for women and widownms,
there's a children's home ... and a high school'
537 > [people living ehre still who were here almost when
ashram started] answer in Hindi ; three families still
here from partition
545 > [they have been here for fifty year] 'yes ... the few
women came here after partn they say they don't
want yo go anywhere else, ince one old lady says only
her dead body will leave this place'
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