Dipankar Das from Andaman has innovated a series of daily-use items to ease the burden of farmers and daily wage earners
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Dipankar Das was still in his teens when he decided to ease the hardships of his farmer parents. Born as a labourer’s son in the Andaman Islands, Dipankar regularly watched his parents toil as daily wagers in the fields.
“They always worked in the fields and were involved in activities like carrying heavy materials on their head and using tools for various purposes. The skin on their hands often suffered bruises,” Dipankar, now 22, told The Better India.
The unavoidable task of husk threshing, to separate it from grains, became much more painful with bruised hands. “That is when I started thinking about using different techniques to ease their work.,” Dipankar said.
The youngster says he spent his childhood exploring discarded toys and broken…