Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 02:02pm on 21 Nov 2023,Tuesday India
Nehru's 'Tribal Wife' Budhni Manjhiyain, who faced ostracization from her Santhali tribal community after being garlanded by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1959, breathed her last on November 17 at the age of 80. Forced to flee her village of Kharbola, now submerged in Jharkhand, Manjhiyain found solace in West Bengal's Purulia district. Her grandson, Baapi Dutta, revealed that despite the injustice, she lived contentedly, without complaints. Recalling her ordeal, Manjhiyain's grandson emphasized how she escaped potential harm, later securing employment at Damodar Valley Corporation around 1985-86. That's where she met Sudhir Dutta, who she would go on to marry.
