Key Highlights
- “We’re dying of starvation every day.
- It’s better to die once’ were her words.” At Tuta Dharna Sthal, a designated protest site in Chhattisgarh’s Naya Raipur, Savita Manikpuri tears up recalling her last conversation with Dulari Yadav.
- Thirty-eight-year-old Manikpuri from Dudhawa village in Kanker district is among the hundreds cooks who have gathered at Tuta since December 29, 2025, on an indefinite strike in support of their demands.
- Key among these demands is a substantial increase in the monthly honorarium of ₹2,000 or what translates to ₹66 per day.
- Dulari from Bemetara, in her late 50s, was also among them until hours before she died on January 25.
