Banke. With the development of modern technology, the traditional occupation of the endangered Kuchbadhiya community is facing a crisis. Arjun Kuchbadhiya, a resident of Indrapur, Janki Rural Municipality-3, Banke, said that his ancestral occupation of making and selling grinding stones (silauto) and traditional grinding stones (janto) is facing a crisis as mixer machines have started being used in cities and villages. “Our ancestral occupation is the business of silauto, janto, and sundori, but now they are not sold at all,” he said, “Now that every household uses a mixer, no one buys silauto and janto.” There is a compulsion to...