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A Family in India's Nagaland Finds Alternate Ways to Cook Food, in Photos
Rising fuel prices and scarcity force a Nagaland family to switch to firewood for cooking, making LPG cylinders unaffordable.
- In Kohima, India, Tovi Murru's family shifted to cooking with firewood after liquefied petroleum gas became unavailable. The transition began in April, marking a major change in their household routines.
- The war in Iran has disrupted global oil supplies, affecting India, which imports nearly 90% of its crude oil. Residents living more than 4,000 kilometers from Tehran face severe shortages of gasoline and LPG.
- An LPG cylinder costs almost a quarter of Murru's salary on the black market, more than double what it cost before the Iran war. Available cylinders remain scarce and unaffordable for millions of homes.
- Housework has doubled, with Murru taking over kitchen duties from his wife, Atoshi Ayemi, 27. "It's the heat from the fire that gets me," Murru said, while caring for their 3-year-old daughter, Azatina.
- With power outages most evenings, the couple uses mobile phones to navigate their home. This struggle reflects how a distant conflict impacts an Indigenous Naga family's basic survival in northeastern India.
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KOHIMA, India (AP) — Tovi Murru doesn’t remember exactly when his family started using firewood to cook. “It was sometime in April,” he says.
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A family in India's Nagaland finds alternate ways to cook food, in photos
KOHIMA, India (AP) — Tovi Murru doesn’t remember exactly when his family started using firewood to cook. “It was sometime in April,” he says.
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