Leather artisan Dhaji Bhojraj proudly shows off his mirror-studded family bunga, or the traditional mud home of the people of Kutch, at the westernmost tip of India. He was only 12 years old when the 2001 earthquake devastated Kutch, killing more than 20,000 people, flattening villages and mowing down more than 400,000 houses — including his. That memory is still vivid, though the current surroundings are new. The extended family of 12 relocated from Khavda village to Rudrani, 15 kilometers from the capital city of Bhuj, after the earthquake.
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