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Zubair Ahmed

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Good investment for women in India

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

The BBC’s Zubair Ahmed has the remarkable story of a group of poor women in the Indian city of Mumbai who relied on their cooking skills to create an economic miracle out of the most basic of Indian food items.

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