A space engineer with eyes firmly on earth
To the strains of the 1970s hit ‘Tum aagaye to noor aagaya hain’, Sita Devi returns from the market, greets a fellow villager and explains to him how to treat seeds with special soil and bits of turmeric and hing (asafoetida). Her neighbour from a Bihar village avidly listens. So did around 2.5 lakh people when a video featuring her was screened in villages on mobile projectors.