Moori

Women had entered the rice and moori (puffed rice) business and set up shops for the first time, enabled by loans from the SHGs.

Then, she filled a smaller tin with the fresh moori and gave it to Felänee, saying, “Give this to your little fellow.”

Soon he gave up coolieing and started selling moori, carrying a large sack of puffed rice through the streets of Calcutta, shouting ‘moori…moori’ and watching for windows to open and housewives to beckon him up musty building stairs […]