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To: JPR who wrote (9598)	11/15/1999 11:14:00 AM
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timesofindia.com Solar lanterns light up Tilonia women's lives By Anita Katyal The Times of India News Service TILONIA (Rajasthan): At first glance, Kamla (26) appears to be the archetypical village belle. She hides shyly behind a veil, her slender frame weighed down by chunky silver jewellery and her face almost hidden by her huge nose ring. She speaks diffidently and has to be coaxed to make conversation, particularly with strangers. But put her behind a table full of wires, circuits, charge controllers and panels and she is a transformed person as she deftly assembles together a solar lantern singlehandedly. Kamla is Rajasthan's first woman ``barefoot solar engineer', trained at Tilonia village's special community development project - the Barefoot College campus or the Social Work Research Centre (SWRC).

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