06/24/2026
Dhanropani: धानक मौसम
With the onset of the monsoon, paddy transplantation begins across Mithila. Young rice seedlings, grown in nursery plots, are pulled up and tied into bundles, then carried to wherever planting is underway. Workers move through standing water in rows, pressing each seedling into the mud by hand, often working together as families and hired labor to plant fields within the narrow window the monsoon allows.
These scenes return every year across the plains of northern Bihar and the Terai. Once the fields are planted, the long wait begins for the rice harvest later in the year.
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