By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : What can be an innovative solution to rural India’s poverty?
Nothing but artificial insemination of cows. At least, this is what one of the central characters of Radhika Jha’s new novel “Lanterns on Their Horns” feels.
Change does not come easily to the imaginary village of Nandgaon in central India. Headman Gopal Mundkur fears modern science will only destruct the fragile harmony that binds Nandgaon and its people together.
But when Ramu, the village simpleton, marries Laxmi, the college-educated daughter of a poor farmer, their union gives birth to a miracle that will change Nandgaon forever, and there is little Mundkur can do about it.
The unlikely catalyst for this transformation is Manoj Mishra, a failed PhD in history, who believes he has found the solution to rural India’s poverty artificial insemination of cows.